From 52bee6baba1b5aeb5abe763c06478cd3139a5a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothee Cour <timothee.cour2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 01:18:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] partially fix #8218: nim doc --project (#8737)

---
 compiler/docgen.nim | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compiler/docgen.nim b/compiler/docgen.nim
index b35452365b..3842f0ad4e 100644
--- a/compiler/docgen.nim
+++ b/compiler/docgen.nim
@@ -787,14 +787,13 @@ proc getOutFile2(conf: ConfigRef; filename, ext, dir: string): string =
 
 proc writeOutput*(d: PDoc, filename, outExt: string, useWarning = false) =
   var content = genOutFile(d)
-  var success = true
   if optStdout in d.conf.globalOptions:
     writeRope(stdout, content)
   else:
     let outfile = getOutFile2(d.conf, filename, outExt, "htmldocs")
-    success = writeRope(content, outfile)
-  if not success:
-    rawMessage(d.conf, if useWarning: warnCannotOpenFile else: errCannotOpenFile, filename)
+    createDir(outfile.parentDir)
+    if not writeRope(content, outfile):
+      rawMessage(d.conf, if useWarning: warnCannotOpenFile else: errCannotOpenFile, outfile)
 
 proc writeOutputJson*(d: PDoc, filename, outExt: string,
                       useWarning = false) =