Make sure the test snippet directory exists

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/docgen.nim b/compiler/docgen.nim
index a7f7d77b5..90b6d0426 100644
--- a/compiler/docgen.nim
+++ b/compiler/docgen.nim
@@ -149,14 +149,16 @@ proc newDocumentor*(filename: AbsoluteFile; cache: IdentCache; conf: ConfigRef,
       if filename.len == 0:
         inc(d.id)
         let nameOnly = splitFile(d.filename).name
-        let subdir = getNimcacheDir(conf) / RelativeDir(nameOnly)
-        createDir(subdir)
-        outp = subdir / RelativeFile(nameOnly & "_snippet_" & $d.id & ".nim")
+        outp = getNimcacheDir(conf) / RelativeDir(nameOnly) /
+               RelativeFile(nameOnly & "_snippet_" & $d.id & ".nim")
       elif isAbsolute(filename):
-        outp = AbsoluteFile filename
+        outp = AbsoluteFile(filename)
       else:
         # Nim's convention: every path is relative to the file it was written in:
-        outp = splitFile(d.filename).dir.AbsoluteDir / RelativeFile(filename)
+        let nameOnly = splitFile(d.filename).name
+        outp = AbsoluteDir(nameOnly) / RelativeFile(filename)
+      # Make sure the destination directory exists
+      createDir(outp.splitFile.dir)
       # Include the current file if we're parsing a nim file
       let importStmt = if d.isPureRst: "" else: "import \"$1\"\n" % [d.filename]
       writeFile(outp, importStmt & content)