Conda-build omits empty directories?

[briantoby]

Actual Behavior

It seems that somewhere between conda-build and conda-constructor, empty directories downloaded or created by the build script are not appearing in the final tar package. This appears to be happening in conda-build 3.20.5 on OS X and probably Linux. I have not yet fully diagnosed this, and may not get to that, but wanted to record this observation.

Expected Behavior

Removing empty directories is not something that should happen or at least should be optional. At least in some cases these are needed for software to run properly.

Steps to Reproduce

Output of conda info

[mingwandroid]

Hi @briantoby, thanks for the report. I think it shouldn't remove empty directories. If you didn't want them, you wouldn't have created them (or else can delete them before conda-build does its packaging bit).

[kenodegard]

Closing in favor of duplicate #1014