Can any windows folks vet this idea? peace,
isaac
--- Begin Message ---Dear Isaac, I have not been able to successfully run the `sdist` command with Cabal on my WinXP system, neither with GHC 6.6, nor with WinHugs (Sep 2006). The reason seams to be that when calling the system to tar and gzip the source directory, you are using too sophisticated command-line syntax. Thus, windows (nor cygwin) cannot get the final tar.gz right. I therefore propose that you make some kind of change at the module Distribution.Simple.SrcDist: let tarBallFilePath = targetPref `joinFileName` tarBallName pkg_descr -- line 133 replaced with these two system calls system $ unwords ["tar -C", tmpDir, "-cf", tarBallFilePath, nameVersion pkg_descr] system $ unwords ["gzip -9", tarBallFilePath] -- end of changes removeDirectoryRecursive tmpDir putStrLn $ "Source tarball created: " ++ tarBallFilePath And of course, it is needed to name the tarBall without the .gz ending, otherwise gzip protests: tarBallName p = (nameVersion p) ++ ".tar" Thank you for considering this. Best regards, Otakar Smrz
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