GHC doesn't doesn't clean up the way it should

[Simon Marlow]

On 06 May 2004 10:16, Josef Svenningsson wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Simon Marlow [mailto:simonmar at microsoft.com]
>> 
>> Ok, can you provide a sample command line that I can use to reproduce
>> the problem?  Maybe you need to provide the preprocessor program too
>> (a perl script will probably do).
>> 
> 
> OK. I haven't been able to reproduce this with GHC only with GHCi. Any
> pre-processor will do, I've used this one for testing (I don't know
> Perl but Haskell works fine :-):
> \begin{code}
> module Main where
> 
> import System
> 
> main = do args <- getArgs
>           case args of
>            [_,infile,outfile] -> do cont <- readFile infile
>                                     writeFile outfile cont
> \end{code}
> 
> Here's the command line I use to reproduce to behaviour:
> $ ghci -F -pgmF ./testpp.exe -v HaskellModule.hs
> 
> I'm running cygwin as you've probably noticed.

Works fine here.  The temp file is deleted when you *exit* GHCi, BTW (it
is cached for future recompilations).

Cheers,
	Simon