Mon May 5 01:57:46 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts * Cope better with ghc bug #2201, display a better error message Otherwise it can (and does) really confuse people. The problem is that the command $ ghc-pkg-6.9 describe '*' --user returns a non-zero exit code if the user package db is empty. ghc-pkg intends this exit code to tell us if the query returned any results (one can use more complex queries as tests) but Cabal interprets it as failure. Indeed we cannot distinguish it from any other kind of failure from ghc-pkg. M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -1 +11 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080505085746-adfee-30b21f3f4...