ghc-8.0.1.20161117 did not install ghc.1 manpage

This seems to be a build regression from ghc-8.0.1.

The ghc.1 manpage was not installed for the 8.0.2 RC1 build.

I reported this in mail earlier and unfortunately in the meantime lost the buildlogs on Fedora Copr, but since the upstream binary tarballs for Linux also don't seem to contain ghc.1 either it should not be too hard to reproduce.

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Version	8.0.2-rc1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
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assigned to @bgamari

So I'm rather perplexed. I checked the rc2 binary distributions and found that the i386-deb8-linux, x86_64-deb8-linux, x86_64-unknown-mingw32, and x86_64-apple-darwin distributions all contain a ghc.1 manpage. I also verified that ghc.1 was installed to $prefix/share/man/man1 as expected. Finally, I checked the rc1 x86_64-deb8-linux tarball and confirmed that it too has a ghc.1. What am I missing here?

Most probably fedora build needs to be fixed, we've added sphinx as dependency to generate the manpages in Nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21434/files

Yes, I strongly suspect that this is the case.

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

Thanks! Sorry I missed the comments.

Well I have sphinx there: it is generating the User Guide html: but maybe my config is wrong somehow. I will try to dig deeper later and work out why the manpage doesn't get built for me.

Still no movement here.

Here is a typical Fedora buildlog:

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/ghc/8.2.2/65.fc28/data/logs/x86_64/build.log

Anyone see anything wrong? How should a working build look?

<blush/> "Mystery" resolved!: I had "BUILD_MAN=yes" instead of "BUILD_MAN=YES" in build.mk, doh.

Of course it might be better not to care about case (eg build fails completely with HADDOCK_DOCS=yes).

The new Hadrian build system has been merged. Relabeling the tickets concerning the legacy make build system to prevent confusion.

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