Sigbjorn has now fixed this in a better way: GHC now canonicalises the TMPDIR stuff internally. So it should just work in future. Thanks to Sigbjorn; and thaks to Dominic for pointing this one out. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org] | On Behalf Of Dominic Cooney | Sent: 30 May 2003 11:46 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: ghc-split accepts building 6.0 on Windows | | My environment's TEMP and TMP are C:\temp, but for some reason, my recent | Cygwin install makes 'TEMP' and 'TMP' /cygdrive/c/temp/4; this duly gets | passed to ghc-inplace as C:\temp\4. | | Then, in libraries\base, ghc-split complains that \4 mentions a non-existent | group in a regexp: | | ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -H16m -O -fglasgow-exts -cpp -Iinclude | -#include HsBase.h -Icbits/regex -funbox-strict-fields -package-name base -O | -Rghc-timing -split-objs -c GHC/Base.lhs -o GHC/Base.o -ohi GHC/Base.hi | Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/"c:\temp\4 | <--HERE \ghc936.split\.c"/ at | d:\\users\\cooney\\ghc\\ghc-6.0\ghc\driver\split\ghc-split line 51, <TMPI> | line 23. | make[2]: *** [GHC/Base.o] Error 255 | | All I needed to do was editing ghc\driver\split\ghc-split so | | $Tmp_prefix = $ARGV[1] | | was instead | | ($Tmp_prefix = $ARGV[1]) =~ s/\\/\\\\/g; | | I don't know whether this habit of appending \4 is a delightful quirk of my | Cygwin install, but FWIW for other Windows Server 2k3/Cygwin users out | there... | | Dominic Cooney | | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users