[nhc-bugs] Building nhc98 on Windows 2000

[Malcolm Wallace]

> ghc   -package lang -package posix -c \
>  -o /tmp/nhc98-1.12/targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.0/obj/hmake/QSort.o \
>  QSort.hs
> 
> Assembler messages:
> FATAL: Can't create \
> \tmp\nhc98-1.12\targets\ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.0\obj\hmake\QSort.o
> 
> So, for whatever reason, that /tmp/... directory doesn't exist.

>From my reading of the situation, I thought the problem was that the
/tmp/... directory *does* exist, but the \tmp\... directory does not.
(And indeed, why should it, since the invocation didn't ask for it?)

Regards,
    Malcolm