#153: Cabal makes empty data directories ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal | Version: 1.2.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.4.2 Platform: Linux | ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ In http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2007-September/038121.html Sven writes: {{{ The current Cabal used for building GHC has a small bug, it *always* creates the data directory, even if there are no data files in the package. Simple fix: *** /tmp/Install.hs 2007-09-09 14:56:50.000000000 +0200 --- Distribution/Simple/Install.hs 2007-09-09 12:57:21.000000000 +0200 *************** *** 115,121 **** (putStrLn ("directory " ++ haddockPref pkg_descr ++ " does exist: " ++ show docExists)) when (dataFilesExist || docExists) $ do - createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity True dataPref flip mapM_ (dataFiles pkg_descr) $ \ file -> do let dir = takeDirectory file createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity True (dataPref dir) --- 115,120 ---- Nothing substantial, but this leads to lots of useless empty directories when GHC is installed. Feel free to apply this fix in the right repository... (No idea which) }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/153 Hackage http://example.com/ My example project