#372: cabal sdist --snapshot does not work, while ./setup sdist snapshot does ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Hi, cabal sdist has a bug, which does not appear when using Setup.lhs {{{ $ cabal clean cleaning... $ cabal sdist --snapshot Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first. Building source dist for free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016... cabal: dist/src/free-theorems-0.2.1: getDirectoryContents: does not exist (No such file or directory) $ runhaskell Setup.lhs sdist --snapshot Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first. Building source dist for free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016... Source tarball created: dist/free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016.tar.gz $ cat Setup.lhs #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell
import Distribution.Simple main = defaultMain }}}
Using cabal-install 0.6.0, Cabal 1.6.0.1, ghc 6.8.2. I haven’t looked at the code, but I assume it’s a simple mistake. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/372 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects