
#10205: On Windows ghc-pkg always reports cache out of date -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hgolden | Owner: thomie Type: bug | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.2 Component: ghc-pkg | Version: 7.10.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: Type of failure: Incorrect result | Unknown/Multiple at runtime | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: Phab:D990 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): Replying to [comment:3 Kludgy]:
EDIT: Not sure if it helps, but certain operations (like renaming a file with a directory) cause the directory modified time to be updated, usually leading to the directory modified time exceeding the file modified time.
It was exactly this! -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10205#comment:13 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler