make install fails on Windows (8?) -- redux
My first attempt to build GHC (on Windows 8) from sources went pretty well until I got to the "make install" step. Some research revealed that at least one other person got the same error I didhttp://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2012-November/078353.htmlbuilding on Windows. That other person "fixed" the problem by deleting the offending lines from the build scripts. I looked around a bit and noticed that pretty much every other place else that removeFiles was referenced, the path was quoted. I added quotes to the paths on the two offending lines and subsequently the "make install" process completed without errors. I'm happy to log a bug, submit a patch, etc., but since this would be my first time doing that, I thought I should run it by you folks first. The wiki suggests adding a test case for a bug, but since this is a build error, I suppose that wouldn't make sense?
On 02/22/2013 01:11 AM, Daniel Pratt wrote:
My first attempt to build GHC (on Windows 8) from sources went pretty well until I got to the "make install" step. Some research revealed that at least one other person got the same error I did building on Windows. That other person "fixed" the problem by deleting the offending lines from the build scripts.
I looked around a bit and noticed that pretty much every other place else that removeFiles was referenced, the path was quoted. I added quotes to the paths on the two offending lines and subsequently the "make install" process completed without errors.
I'm happy to log a bug, submit a patch, etc., but since this would be my first time doing that, I thought I should run it by you folks first. The wiki suggests adding a test case for a bug, but since this is a build error, I suppose that wouldn't make sense?
Hi Daniel, I went ahead and pushed a fix for the problem. Thanks, Geoff
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