Windows doesn't allow files called "Aux" (it's a vestige of the DOS days).
G On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <dhelta.d...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Firstly, my apologies if this is not the right place to report this > problem, but my guess is that is a cabal related problem. > > I wrote a package and is now uploaded in Hackage [1]. I do not have any > problems installing it (cabal install) in my usual computer (debian). I > tried other computer running windows, and it does not build reporting the > following error: > > hatex-guide-1.0.1.3 failed while unpacking the package. The exception was: > user error (Invalid file name in tar archive: > "hatex-guide-1.0.1.3\\Text\\LaTeX\\Guide\\Aux.hs") > > I am using a custom script and this module here (Text.LaTeX.Guide.Aux) is > generated by the Setup.hs code. > > Suspecting that it may fail in other computers as well, I have tried to > install it in yet another maching (ubuntu). It installed just fine. > > Therefore, I am seeing different behaviors depending on the system, when > the library really does not use any platform specific feature. It should be > portable if I am not missing anything. Anyway, note that the error is > "while unpacking the package". Mysterious to me. > > I would gladly look through the Cabal code and look in which step is the > error thrown, but I am not familiarized with the code of the library and it > may be a big task for such a simple (in appearance) error. However, I can > tell that I didn't try (yet). > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Daniel Díaz. > > -- > > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hatex-guide > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel > > -- Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net>
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