Gregory Wright
If you can tell me where the include/ directory is created I can take a stab at making a patch. If you can't, I can still try. It just might take me longer :-)
If this is happening during registration (I can't remember offhand), the it's probably in the file GHCPackageConfig.hs. Grep around for createDirectoryIfMIssing. Maybe that function could take an extra flag "thisDirectoryMightBeEmpty" or something: grep createDirectory Simple/Register.hs Simple/GHC.hs Simple/GHCPackageConfig.hs Simple/Register.hs: (createDirectoryIfMissing,removeDirectoryRecursive, Simple/Register.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True libdir Simple/GHC.hs: ( createDirectoryIfMissing ) Simple/GHC.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True libTargetDir Simple/GHC.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True odir Simple/GHC.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True targetDir Simple/GHC.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True exeDir Simple/GHC.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True cSrcODir Simple/GHC.hs: = do createDirectoryIfMissing True pref Simple/GHC.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True incdir Simple/GHCPackageConfig.hs:import Distribution.Compat.Directory (getHomeDirectory, createDirectoryIfMissing) Simple/GHCPackageConfig.hs: createDirectoryIfMissing True (dirName f) BTW, I committed a bunch of comment changes last night all over the place, so to avoid conflicts, everyone will want to pull before making any changes. peace, isaac