Release Candidate for 6.2.1 available

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

The particular problem that you are encountering seems to be some
complicated interaction between Win98 and the GHC build system.   We
can't reproduce it, not having a Win98 box, and supporting building from
source on Win98 isn't a major goal. It would have been great if the new
RC fixed it, but I'd have been surprised.

The RC was trying to test something more modest, namely that the 6.2.1rc
binary release works correctly on Win98 systems, even when
	* the compiler itself is installed in a directory with spaces
	* temporary files are stored in a directory with spaces
	* the compiler is invoked in a directory with spaces

Could you try that?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-
| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Gour
| Sent: 18 March 2004 08:56
| To: GHC users
| Subject: Re: Release Candidate for 6.2.1 available
| 
| Simon Marlow (simonmar at microsoft.com) wrote:
| 
| > Please test.  We'd especially like to hear from Win98/WinME users.
Also
| > try installing under a directory path with spaces in if you can.
| 
| Here is the result of attempting to build ghc-6.2.1 with the 6.2.1rc
binaries:
| 
| [...]
| 
| ==fptools== make boot - --unix -wr;
|  in /ghc/fptools/libraries/base
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ../../ghc/utils/hsc2hs/hsc2hs-inplace -Iinclude -I../../ghc/includes
-Icbits/regex -I.
| System/CPUTime.hsc
| Executing: c:/MinGW/bin/gcc -c -mno-cygwin -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=602 -
| Ic:/ghc/fptools/ghc/includes -Iinclude -I../../ghc/includes
-Icbits/regex -I.
| System\CPUTime_hsc_make.c -o System\CPUTime_hsc_make.o
| Executing: c:/MinGW/bin/gcc System\CPUTime_hsc_make.o -o
System\CPUTime_hsc_make.exe
| 
| Fail: System\CPUTime_hsc_make.o: removeFile: does not exist (No such
file or directory)
| 
| make[2]: *** [System/CPUTime.hs] Error 1
| make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/ghc/fptools/libraries'
| make: *** [build] Error 1
| 
| 
| Again, the same problem: System\CPUTime_hsc_make.c -o
System\CPUTime_hsc_make.o
| 
| It should be: System/CPUTime_hsc_make.c -o System/CPUTime_hsc_make.o
| 
| 
| I'm angry at myself not knowing Haskell and being able to fix this
stuff :-(
| 
| Sincerely,
| Gour
| 
| --
| Gour
| gour at mail.inet.hr
| Registered Linux User #278493
| 
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