On Sunday 09 September 2007 15:01, Sven Panne wrote:
> 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)
Any news on this one? Neither this patch or a similar one has been applied
yet, if I see it correctly.
Cheers,
S.
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