"Sigbjorn Finne"
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Is there a description of what's wrong with the released Windows version of GHC wrt. compiling up nhc98?
I got curious, so I went to have a look at the nhc-bugs archives -- seems like what's at the root of it all is that the following ghc invocation: ghc -package lang -package posix -c \ -o /tmp/nhc98-1.12/targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.0/obj/hmake/QSort.o \ QSort.hs Assembler messages: FATAL: Can't create \ \tmp\nhc98-1.12\targets\ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.0\obj\hmake\QSort.o This is a known 'usability bug' with GHC - it doesn't check that the directory portion of the '-o' file exists, but just merrily hands it off to the assembler, which barfs with the above unfriendly message. So, for whatever reason, that /tmp/... directory doesn't exist. --sigbjorn