id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
4461	make binary-dist tries to tar non-existing files	maeder		"I only notice now that at the end of ""make binary-dist"" I get non-fatal messages like:

{{{
 cd bindistprep && ""/opt/csw/bin/gtar"" hcf - -T ../bindist-list | bzip2 -c > ../bindistprep/ghc-7.0
.0.20100924-i386-unknown-solaris2.tar.bz2
/opt/csw/bin/gtar: ghc-7.0.0.20100924/libraries/dph/LICENSE: Kann stat nicht ausführen: Datei oder
 Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
/opt/csw/bin/gtar: ghc-7.0.0.20100924/libraries/dph/ghc-packages: Kann stat nicht ausführen: Datei
 oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
/opt/csw/bin/gtar: ghc-7.0.0.20100924/libraries/dph/ghc-packages2: Kann stat nicht ausführen: Date
i oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
/opt/csw/bin/gtar: ghc-7.0.0.20100924/libraries/dph/ghc-stage2-package: Kann stat nicht ausführen:
 Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
/opt/csw/bin/gtar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler
}}}
under solaris and

{{{
cd bindistprep && ""/usr/bin/gnutar"" hcf - -T ../bindist-list | bzip2 -c > ../bindistprep/ghc-7.0.0
.20101028-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
/usr/bin/gnutar: ghc-7.0.0.20101028/rts/dist/build/libHSrts_debug.a: file changed as we read it
/usr/bin/gnutar: ghc-7.0.0.20101028/libraries/dph/LICENSE: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/gnutar: ghc-7.0.0.20101028/libraries/dph/ghc-packages: Cannot stat: No such file or direc
tory
/usr/bin/gnutar: ghc-7.0.0.20101028/libraries/dph/ghc-packages2: Cannot stat: No such file or dire
ctory
/usr/bin/gnutar: ghc-7.0.0.20101028/libraries/dph/ghc-stage2-package: Cannot stat: No such file or
 directory
/usr/bin/gnutar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
}}}
under MacOS.

This applies to both ghc-7 release candidates. The created tar-files seem to work, though. So it is only confusing output during building.
"	bug	closed	normal		Build System	7.1	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple	None/Unknown