id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,difficulty,ghcversion,platform
799,./dist/setup/setup without execute bit causes cabal to exit silently with code 127,rrnewton,,"I ran into this one thanks to Dropbox.

All my cabal commands started to fail in the same way all of a sudden (no output, error code 127).  A cabal clean -v3 revealed the problem and a chmod +x fixed it.

    $ cabal clean -v3; echo $?

    Using external setup method with build-type Custom
    Creating ./dist/setup (and its parents)
    Using Cabal library version 1.8.0.6
    Using ./Setup.hs as setup script.
    ./dist/setup/setup clean --verbose=3
    127
",defect,closed,normal,cabal-install-0.16,cabal-install tool,1.8.0.6,normal,duplicate,,,unknown,,