Re: GHC compilation error (re-post).

Thanks Garrett. I deleted the Haskell Platform installation, manually removed all traces of GHC and the Hakell Platform from my registry and various folders, then re-installed the Haskell Platform. I created a folder under the 'C:\' drive, copied my .hs files there, changed to that subfolder started ghci. The file loaded without error. This seems like a problem the developers might address in the next release? Thanks again for the help. ~Caitlin On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:53 PM, J. Garrett Morris wrote:

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

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on a Win32 (SP3) machine using the Haskell Platform and GHC-7.6.1 (standalone) and I have noticed the same frustrating errors. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Are you certain you have write permission for C:\? I'm not terribly with how Windows handles file permissions, but the error seems pretty

I suspect it's more fundamental than that.

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*** Exception: CreateDirectory ".": permission denied (Access is denied.)

Why is it trying to create "."?

You can specify -o<dir> with a directory that doesn't exist; perhaps GHC always tries to create the output directory?

In any case, I can confirm the observed behavior with GHC 7.6.1 on Windows 8, running with elevated privilege. It seems to only be a problem in the root directory tho---while I can observe the problem in both C:\ and D:\, I can't in any subdirectories thereof.

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