#12971: gcc not finding default temporary directory -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: erikprantare | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Hello, I've been trying to get the ghc to compile a .hs file to binary. I get an error that seems to be caused during the C compilation phase from the special character ä in my user directory. When compiling I get this: {{{ C:\Users\Erik Präntare>ghc C:\code\Haskell\test.hs Linking C:\code\Haskell\test.exe ... realgcc.exe: error: C:\Users\Erik Pr├ñntare\AppData\Local\Temp\ghc28912_0\ghc_1. c: No such file or directory realgcc.exe: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. `gcc.exe' failed in phase `C Compiler'. (Exit code: 1) }}} Notice how it says Pr├ñntare instead of Präntare. The UTF-8 encoding for ä is 0xC3 0xA4 which, surprise surprise, corresponds to ├ñ in ASCII. Now, I managed to get around this by changing the tmpdir to my actual temporary directory, but as a new user of ghc it was very troublesome to find a solution. Maybe consider changing the default tmpdir, at least if special characters are encountered? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12971 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler