GHC 6.6 using stale stub.c files

[Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza]

   I tried recompiling a little (big?) Win32 binding library I had made, 
when the official one wasn't working for me. It had a bunch of generated 
stubs files in it (I'm not 100% sure what they are for). The problem is 
that, not even with -fforce-recomp (much better name, thanx!) will GHC 
regenerate those files (I think that's normal), but still it tries to 
use them if they are there. I get errors like these:

Win32Test_stub.c: In function `Main_d4n0':

Win32Test_stub.c:14:0:
     error: too few arguments to function `rts_mkPtr'

Win32Test_stub.c:14:0:
     warning: passing arg 1 of `rts_apply' from incompatible pointer type

Win32Test_stub.c:14:0:
     error: too few arguments to function `rts_apply'

Win32Test_stub.c:14:0:
     warning: passing arg 1 of `rts_mkWord32' makes pointer from integer 
without a cast

   (etc, etc... lots of them).

   The stub file is old:

C:\Documents and Settings\JCAB\My Documents\Haskell>dir Win32Test_stub.c
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is A0CD-B8F4

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\JCAB\My Documents\Haskell

08/18/2005  12:15 AM               637 Win32Test_stub.c
               1 File(s)            637 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  151,815,680,000 bytes free

   And yes, I'm on Windows.

   There are some stubs files that were regenerated:

C:\Documents and Settings\JCAB\My Documents\Haskell>dir 
Win32\Window\Types_stub.c
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is A0CD-B8F4

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\JCAB\My 
Documents\Haskell\Win32\Window

10/22/2006  05:05 PM               717 Types_stub.c
               1 File(s)            717 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  151,803,375,616 bytes free

   So I suppose the no-longer-needed stubs files were related to the 
modules that made use of this Win32.Window.Types module I had here. I 
guess GHC doesn't need those any more, but it just tries to use any stub 
files it finds. It probably shouldn't use them, and it should probably 
even delete them, unless it generated them, at least when -fforce-recomp 
is specified.

   I'm moving on. I made a copy of all the files, so let me know if you 
need a repro. Deleting the stubs files fixes the problem. I haven't seen 
anything about this in the documentation, but maybe I just didn't look 
in the right places.

   Thanx!

JCAB