id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
529	sdist creation code currently doesn't work with Solaris's tar	igloo		"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.
"	defect	closed	normal		Cabal library	1.6.0.1	normal	wontfix			unknown