ghc-5.02.2 is not a cygwin application,
Whilst I was aware that GHC no longer requires Cygwin to run, I didn't realise that it actively discourages use under Cygwin. This issue arose because a Windows user would like to use `hmake' with GHC, and the `hmake' installation currently requires Cygwin. Is there really no possibility of using GHC in the Cygwin environment?
so it won't understand paths like /d/foo -- it will understand d:/foo and d:\foo though.
Internally, the compiler will canonicalise paths to 'platform-native' formats before passing them to external tools, which is why you see the slashes reversed.
As far as I understand the Windows filesystem (which I admit is not very far at all), \d\foo is not a canonical pathname, so why is GHC generating it? Thanks for looking into these issues, Sigbjorn. Regards, Malcolm