#14021: 8.2.1 deb8 bindist fails to install on Windows 10 WSL -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: bgamari Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 8.2.3 Component: Build System | Version: 8.2.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #13304 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by ivanbakel): I am encountering this issue one Parabola Linux, which pointed me to my use of NTFS probably being the culprit, since it seemed the only thing in common with WSL. This seems to have something to do with the way the modification time is treated in a tar extraction. Tested on my machine with the command used by stack: * Extracting the tarball on ext4 preserves the modification time - the package `.cabal` files are correctly older than the `setup-config` files * Extracting the tarball on ntfs mounted with ntfs-3g makes the modification time equal to the extraction time, and possibly due to the extraction order the `.cabal` file ends up newer than the `setup-config` file If the `setup-config` file is older than the `.cabal` file by modification time, the `reconfigure` step triggers in `Distribution.Simple.getBuildConfig`, and that causes the error in the report, though I don't know why. Otherwise, the package install is successful. There's a temporary work- around where you can just `touch` the `setup-config` file for each package to get around this problem. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14021#comment:17 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler