Summary: | ghc has no man page | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Rafael Almeida <almeidaraf> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo's Haskell Language team <haskell> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | trivial | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2006.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Rafael Almeida
2006-03-17 13:38:20 UTC
It's true that ghc does not come with a man page. I agree that it might be nice. However it's not out policy to add these kinds of things if upstream do not provide them. If you want to get a man page for ghc, I suggest that you propose it to the ghc developers. If you were to find a way of generating the man page from the existing docbook manual then it shouldn't be any more work to maintain and I'm sure they would be happy to add that. The bits that one might want in a man page would come from this section in the manual: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/using-ghc.html Or you might just want the flag reference: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html There are various tools available to convert docbook to man pages. For example: http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net docbook2X is already in portage. I'm closing this bug and marking it as an upstream issue. I've asked the ghc developers about this. I'm not sure if I should have re-opnened this bug report, anyhow you can see the answer here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/730 I think that's the manpage used on debian. It'd be good if you could add it to gentoo or something. I hope I'm being helpful. Thanks Rafael, that's fine. Hopefully they'll add that upstream. |