Yes, to be clear, was this with the binary distribution, MinGW, Haskell Platform, etc? We shouldn't ever need administrative privileges in the regular binary distribution for anything, so this may not be our bug if
#10205: On Windows ghc-pkg always reports cache out of date -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hgolden | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: normal |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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by hgolden): Replying to [comment:5 thoughtpolice]: that fixes it? In my original report, there are two separate sets of messages: One is for the global directory and the other is for my personal directory. As a non- administrator user, I don't have write access to the global directory, since it is a subdirectory of C:\Program Files (under Windows 7 or later). However, I do have access to my own directory. I am getting the out-of- date messages for both files. As I recall, when I ran into this situation, I had administrative privileges on my PC. In my company's wisdom, I no longer have administrative privileges, so I can't test the proposed fix in comment #4, but I believe I already did that in the original report. Storing the global cache (or any other part of GHC) in a subdirectory of C:\Program Files will not work if the user doesn't have administrative privileges, at least under Windows 7 or later. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10205#comment:7 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler