GHC and Mingw32 (cont.)

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I'm redirecting this to ghc bugs and cvs-ghc.

The conclusion is that 'make install' on Win32 is currently broken.
(Mostly people install from the .msi installer, which is why it's not
much exercised.)  I doubt it's really hard, just ticklish.

Does any Win32 expert feel like fixing it?  We'd be happy to help.

Simon


| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-admin at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-admin at haskell.org]
| On Behalf Of Michael Adams
| Sent: 28 July 2003 22:34
| To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: GHC and Mingw32 (cont.)
| 
| Ok, I got GHC compiled but running it is a tricky.  It
| has trouble finding package.conf.
| 
| I found a reference to this problem at
|
<http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org/msg05617.h
tml>.
|   The work-around of doing -B does work (make sure you
| don't but a space after the -B though), but it would
| be nice for a better solution.  Can this be fixed?
| The e-mail refers to the location of package.conf
| changing causing the problem.
| 
| Michael D. Adams
| mdmkolbe at yahoo.com
| 
| The following is a demonstration of the problem and
| work-around.
| 
| $ ghc --version
| D:\cygwin\usr\local\stow\ghc-6-cvs\bin\ghc.exe: Can't
| find package.conf as
| D:\cygwin\usr\local\stow\ghc-6-cvs\ghc\driver\package.conf.inplace
| 
| $ find /usr/local/stow/ghc-6-cvs/ -name package\*
| -print
| /usr/local/stow/ghc-6-cvs/lib/ghc-6.1/package.conf
| 
| $ ghc --version
| -BD:\\cygwin\\usr\\local\\stow\\ghc-6-cvs\\lib\\ghc-6.1
| The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System,
| version 6.1
| 
| 
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