ghc-inplace exiting with "error 1" foolishness

[Sigbjorn Finne]

"Dominic Cooney" <dominic@dcooney.com> writes:
>
> I complained late last week that GHC failed to build because ghc-inplace
> couldn't do anything more complicated than print its version number.
>
> I tried again on a clean machine, this time remembering to replace
> Cygwin's sh.exe with bash.exe, and mounting C:\mingw as /mingw and
> C:\mingw\include as /mingw/mingw32/include.
>

Yes, stay clear of 'ash' (which sh.exe is) when building ghc. It has
'issues'
with quoting and length of command lines.

--sigbjorn