Cabal mangles exceptions
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Cabal: other
old-milestone: ⊥
priority: low
type: bug
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Description
(Imported from [Trac #833](http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/833), reported by @igloo on 2011-04-21)
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'where a space in the filename has been replaced with a '\n'. This can be very confusing!
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)
It looks like Distribution.Simple.Utils.topHandler / wrapText is the culprit.
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