id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,difficulty,ghcversion,platform
924,symlink-bindir does not play nice with program-suffix,guest,,"I'd expect symlinks to be created with the program-suffix.  Instead what happens is that cabal-install correctly suffixes the installed binary, but attempts to create a symlink to it from an unsuffixed name, which can fail if the unsuffixed name already exists in the symlink-bindir.

{{{
~ $ cabal --version
cabal-install version 0.13.3
using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library
}}}

Example:

{{{
gruff $ cabal install --program-suffix=-fixed
...[snip]...
Warning: could not create a symlink in /home/claude/opt/bin for gruff because
the file exists there already but is not managed by cabal. You can create a
symlink for this executable manually if you wish. The executable file has been
installed at /home/claude/.cabal/bin/gruff-fixed
}}}

(The symlink already existed in this particular case, because I wanted to install my development program with a suffix to avoid clobbering the known working version.)
",defect,new,normal,cabal-install-0.16,cabal-install tool,1.14.0,normal,,symlink-bindir program-suffix,claudiusmaximus@…,unknown,7.4.1,Linux