A package does not install in Windows, but it should

[Gregory Collins]

Windows doesn't allow files called "Aux" (it's a vestige of the DOS days).

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <dhelta.diaz at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> Firstly, my apologies if this is not the right place to report this
> problem, but my guess is that is a cabal related problem.
>
> I wrote a package and is now uploaded in Hackage [1]. I do not have any
> problems installing it (cabal install) in my usual computer (debian). I
> tried other computer running windows, and it does not build reporting the
> following error:
>
> hatex-guide-1.0.1.3 failed while unpacking the package. The exception was:
> user error (Invalid file name in tar archive:
> "hatex-guide-1.0.1.3\\Text\\LaTeX\\Guide\\Aux.hs")
>
> I am using a custom script and this module here (Text.LaTeX.Guide.Aux) is
> generated by the Setup.hs code.
>
> Suspecting that it may fail in other computers as well, I have tried to
> install it in yet another maching (ubuntu). It installed just fine.
>
> Therefore, I am seeing different behaviors depending on the system, when
> the library really does not use any platform specific feature. It should be
> portable if I am not missing anything. Anyway, note that the error is
> "while unpacking the package". Mysterious to me.
>
> I would gladly look through the Cabal code and look in which step is the
> error thrown, but I am not familiarized with the code of the library and it
> may be a big task for such a simple (in appearance) error. However, I can
> tell that I didn't try (yet).
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel Díaz.
>
> --
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hatex-guide
>
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