"does not exist" when current directory was deleted

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#2,902 opened on Oct 29, 2015 5 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

blocked: ghc cabal-install: other old-milestone: ⊥

Description

reproduce via:

```
> mkdir temp
> cd temp
> ( cd ..; rm -r temp )
> cabal update -v3
cabal: does not exist
```

This message is rather obscure.

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