#720: Executables fail on windows if the executable name has a dot in it ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: j3h | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- If an executable name has a dot in it, it is not generated with an .exe extension on Windows. It works fine under Linux. See the attached example to reproduce. {{{ $ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.8.2 using version 1.8.0.6 of the Cabal library $ cabal install Resolving dependencies... Configuring bad-exe-0.1... Preprocessing executables for bad-exe-0.1... Building bad-exe-0.1... [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Main.hs, dist\build\bad.name\bad .name-tmp\Main.o ) Main.hs:1:0: Warning: Module `Prelude' is deprecated: You are using the old package `base' version 3.x. Future GHC versions will not support base version 3.x. You should update your code to use the new base version 4.x. Linking dist\build\bad.name\bad.name ... Installing executable(s) in C:\Users\hudson\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin cabal.exe: dist\build\bad.name\bad.name.exe: does not exist cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install: bad-exe-0.1 failed during the final install step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/720 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects