GHC compilation error (re-post).

[Caitlin]

Thanks Garrett.

I deleted the Haskell Platform installation, manually removed all traces of
GHC and the Hakell Platform from my registry and various folders, then
re-installed the Haskell Platform. I created a folder under the 'C:\'
drive, copied my .hs files there, changed to that subfolder started ghci.
The file loaded without error. This seems like a problem the developers
might address in the next release?

Thanks again for the help.

~Caitlin

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:53 PM, J. Garrett Morris <jgmorris at cs.pdx.edu>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > on a Win32 (SP3) machine using the Haskell Platform and GHC-7.6.1
> >> > (standalone) and I have noticed the same frustrating errors. Any
> >> > suggestions would be most appreciated.
> >> >
> >> Are you certain you have write permission for C:\? I'm not terribly with
> >> how Windows handles file permissions, but the error seems pretty
> >
> >
> > I suspect it's more fundamental than that.
> >
> >> *** Exception: CreateDirectory ".": permission denied (Access is
> denied.)
> >
> >
> > Why is it trying to create "."?
>
> You can specify -o<dir> with a directory that doesn't exist; perhaps GHC
> always tries to create the output directory?
>
> In any case, I can confirm the observed behavior with GHC 7.6.1 on
> Windows 8, running with elevated privilege.  It seems to only be a
> problem in the root directory tho---while I can observe the problem in
> both C:\ and D:\, I can't in any subdirectories thereof.
>
>  /g
>
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