cabal path foo errors with 'man' doesn't take any extra arguments: foo

[andreasabel]

On current master:

$ cabal path foo
Error: [Cabal-7061]
'man' doesn't take any extra arguments: foo

This is a cut-and-paste coding error in PR

• A 'cabal path' command. #8879

cabal/cabal-install/src/Distribution/Client/Main.hs

Lines 1392 to 1397 in 9e5e815

	pathAction :: PathFlags -> [String] -> Action
	pathAction pathflags extraArgs globalFlags = do
	let verbosity = fromFlag (pathVerbosity pathflags)
	unless (null extraArgs) $
	dieWithException verbosity $
	ManpageAction extraArgs

Copied from here:

cabal/cabal-install/src/Distribution/Client/Main.hs

Lines 1379 to 1384 in 9e5e815

	manpageAction :: [CommandSpec action] -> ManpageFlags -> [String] -> Action
	manpageAction commands flags extraArgs _ = do
	let verbosity = fromFlag (manpageVerbosity flags)
	unless (null extraArgs) $
	dieWithException verbosity $
	ManpageAction extraArgs

ATTN: @athas

[fendor]

Perhaps interesting, # 4661 #9583 refactors cabal path, and I think it fixes this particular error as well.

EDIT: I linked the wrong number

[athas]

Oh yeah, that's just a copy/paste error. Is it worth fixing if #9583 rewrites the command entirely?

[andreasabel]

Is it worth fixing if #9583 rewrites the command entirely?

We can hold off any activity here until #9583 lands, I'd say. I linked the latter as fixing this issue here.