#833: Cabal mangles exceptions
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Reporter: igloo | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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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.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/833>
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