file name letters

2007-09-05 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC users and developers, there has occured a curious case with file name letters. One user has built the docon library application (in Haskell) on MacOS X 10.4 + ghc-6.6.1. And making the test program has failed due to the presence of the file linalg.hs in the directory

Re: file name letters

2007-09-05 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On 5-sep-2007, at 9:01, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: Dear GHC users and developers, there has occured a curious case with file name letters. One user has built the docon library application (in Haskell) on MacOS X 10.4 + ghc-6.6.1. And making the test program has failed due

Re: file name letters

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Ouch, the well-known case-preserving but case-ignoring default behaviour of MacOS X's file system bites someone again. In short: Mac OS X's filesystem ignores case when opening a file, but preserves case when creating. FWIW, Windows has exactly the same behaviour. Technically you can