[nhc-bugs] Building nhc98 on Windows 2000

[Malcolm Wallace]

"Sigbjorn Finne" <sof@galois.com> writes:

> > /tmp/... directory *does* exist, but the \tmp\... directory does not.
> > (And indeed, why should it, since the invocation didn't ask for it?)
> 
> Notice that both GHC and the mingw system calls (the MS provided
> C runtime functions, really) are capable of understanding paths that
> contain either "/" or "\" as directory separators, so you're reading too
> much into the slashes being reversed in that output message.

So am I right in thinking that if GHC did no internal filepath mangling
whatsoever, everything file-related would just work?

Regards,
    Malcolm