HDirect for GHC 5.04

Sigbjorn Finne sof@galois.com
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:18:02 -0700


"Paul Moore" <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

> >   foo$ make install-pkg libdir=`pwd` datadir=`pwd`
> > 
> > (make sure you remove HDirect.pkg first.)
> 
> Hm. This actually puts Cygwin-format pathnames in HDirect.pkg
> (/cygdrive/c/...) which (the Windows native) GHC doesn't recognise.
> 
....

You normally just sidestep that bash 'pwd' bug/idiosyncracy
by issuing a "cd" command of the form 
"cd c:/your/hdirect/directory" to have it switch over to reporting
paths in non-cygdrive form (== likeable to GHC and other
mingw apps.)

--sigbjorn