ghc/cygwin filename resolution issue.

[Hal Daume III]

It's been a while since I've installed GHC on Windows, but I believe back
when I did it (5.00 or something), you needed to have cygwin installed in
c:\, not c:\cygwin, despite cygwin's protests.  I don't know if this has
changed, though.

 - Hal

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Hal Daume III

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Alex Ferguson wrote:

> 
> Using ghc-5.04.2 under cygwin, and cygwin (v. 1.3.10-1), I'm having some
> horrible problems with inconistent treatment of filenames, especially
> when using (gnu, cygwin) make.  In a nutshell, make seems to be passing
> paths such as "/usr/local/hmake" (etc) to ghc, which is, as I understand
> it, interpretting these in a manner consistent with windows, but not with
> cygwin.  (i.e., it'd expect the above to be something like:
> /cygwin/usr/local/hmake, where the root of the cygwin installation is in
> c:\cygwin.  Experimenting with similar arguments to ghc by hand seems to
> confirm this.
> 
> Is there a work-around for this, or is using cygwin and ghc together just
> an out and out bad idea?
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex.
> 
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