[Hackage] #529: sdist creation code currently doesn't work with Solaris's tar

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#529: sdist creation code currently doesn't work with Solaris's tar
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  Reporter:  igloo          |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.6.0.1
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                 |  
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 Cabal's sdist creation code currently doesn't work on Solaris.
 The code (in Cabal's Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs) is:
 {{{
 let tarBallFilePath = targetPref </> tarBallName pkg_descr <.> "tar.gz"
 rawSystemProgram verbosity tarProg
          ["-C", tmpDir, "-czf", tarBallFilePath, tarBallName pkg_descr]
 return tarBallFilePath
 }}}
 but it looks like we need this instead:
 {{{
 let tarFilePath = targetPref </> tarBallName pkg_descr <.> "tar"
     tarBallFilePath = tarFilePath <.> "gz"
 rawSystemProgram verbosity tarProg
          ["-cf", tarFilePath, "-C", tmpDir, tarBallName pkg_descr]
 rawSystemProgram verbosity gzipProg
          [tarFilePath]
 removeFile tarFilePath
 return tarBallFilePath
 }}}
 Note that we don't actually tell gzip where to put the output, but I can't
 see a way to do so without messing with stdout.

 See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3106 for more details on
 the problems.

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