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-rw-r--r--compiler/main/Packages.lhs7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/main/Packages.lhs b/compiler/main/Packages.lhs
index cdda96193c..42e5cf5557 100644
--- a/compiler/main/Packages.lhs
+++ b/compiler/main/Packages.lhs
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ import System.Directory
import System.FilePath as FilePath
import qualified System.FilePath.Posix as FilePath.Posix
import Control.Monad
+import Data.Char (isSpace)
import Data.List as List
import Data.Map (Map)
import qualified Data.Map as Map
@@ -234,7 +235,11 @@ readPackageConfig dflags conf_file = do
"can't find a package database at " ++ conf_file
debugTraceMsg dflags 2 (text "Using package config file:" <+> text conf_file)
str <- readFile conf_file
- return (map installedPackageInfoToPackageConfig $ read str)
+ case reads str of
+ [(configs, rest)]
+ | all isSpace rest -> return (map installedPackageInfoToPackageConfig configs)
+ _ -> ghcError $ InstallationError $
+ "invalid package database file " ++ conf_file
let
top_dir = topDir dflags