#833: Cabal mangles exceptions ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Cabal mangles exceptions, e.g.: {{{ $ "utils/ghc-cabal/dist/build/tmp/ghc-cabal" install "/home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.1.20110421/ghc" "/home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.1.20110421/ghc- pkg" ":" "/home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.1.20110421" libraries/ghc-prim dist-install '' '/home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir' '/home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.1.20110421' '/home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' Installing library in /home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.1.20110421/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 ghc-cabal: /home/ian/ghc/git/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.1.20110421/settings: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) }}} where a space in the filename has been replaced with a '\n'. This can be very confusing! It looks like `Distribution.Simple.Utils.topHandler` / `wrapText` is the culprit. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/833 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects