Thanks very much Claus and Malcolm. You have clarified the situation nicely: I was beginning to suspect my Cygwin setup and I bet that is where the problem lies.
I won't have time to straighten my Cygwin environment this week, but when I do I will come back here and explain what went wrong (I have seen evidence of others stumbling on this giving rise to speculative misinformation). Sorry for the confusion! Chris -----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Wallace Sent: 08 June 2010 22:06 To: haskell-cafe Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] HP/Cygwin and Curl > with Cygwin I get > > Linking dist\build\cmu\cmu.exe ... > C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\2010.1.0.0\lib\..\mingw\bin > \windres: > can't open temporary file `\/cca04932.irc': No such file or directory This sounds very much like a temporary-filename issue. The reported filename's lack of a valid directory specifier looks highly suspicious to me. Are your TEMP, TEMPDIR, TMP, and TMPDIR environment variables set? Are their values sensible? Do you have appropriate permissions on the directories they point to? These are the kinds of thing I usually need to check when setting up a new Cygwin build environment. Admittedly, we do not use cabal on Windows (firewall prevents it from working), but the other ghc tools generally seem to work without problems for us under Cygwin. Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
