I recently installed Haskell Platform on my laptop. I’ve just begun learning Haskell so I’m still figuring out how to set up everything. I noticed, however, that no man pages are available for Cabal.
me@thinkpad11e:~$ man cabal
No manual entry for cabal
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
me@thinkpad11e:~$ man 7 undocumented
No manual entry for undocumented in section 7
The command cabal --help returns some useful info, but there is no man page, nor apparently any man page for undocumented in section 7. Is there another package with documentation, perhaps a suggested package that wasn’t installed? Or is there just no man page for cabal yet? Should I file a bug report?
I managed to find an online version of man 7 undocumented here, but for Wiley, not Xenial. It suggests running mandb to sync database caches, I may try this later after researching the command a bit more. I still couldn’t find a man page for “undocumented” in section 7 for Xenial, though after searching through section 7 carefully. I easily located it in section 7 of Wiley’s online docs, so it is just not there for some reason. Is this a bug?
Honestly, this not a very big issue (I can find guides on using Cabal online easily enough), but I was a little curious about the missing documentation. I am a big user of man pages. 