cabal sdist --snapshot does not work, while ./setup sdist snapshot does

[bos]

(Imported from Trac #372, reported by @nomeata on 2008-10-16)

Hi,

cabal sdist has a bug, which does not appear when using Setup.lhs

$ cabal clean
cleaning...
$ cabal sdist --snapshot
Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first.
Building source dist for free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016...
cabal: dist/src/free-theorems-0.2.1: getDirectoryContents: does not exist (No such file or directory)
$ runhaskell Setup.lhs sdist --snapshot
Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first.
Building source dist for free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016...
Source tarball created: dist/free-theorems-0.2.1.20081016.tar.gz
$ cat Setup.lhs
# !/usr/bin/env runhaskell

> import Distribution.Simple
> main = defaultMain

Using cabal-install 0.6.0, Cabal 1.6.0.1, ghc 6.8.2. I haven’t looked at the code, but I assume it’s a simple mistake.

[bos]

(Imported comment by @dcoutts on 2008-10-16)

See #410.

[bos]

(Imported comment by @dcoutts on 2009-01-12)

Replying to @dcoutts:

See #410.

Actually that's a mis-diagnosis. It's just a bug.

[bos]

(Imported comment by @dcoutts on 2009-03-09)

Tue Dec 22 08:05:37 GMT 2009  Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org>
- Fix cabal sdist --snapshot
  

Will be in the next cabal-install 0.8.x release.