Thanks for pushing this forward. I wonder what's going on with DeleteFile. What is the step that's failing? Can you post the log?
I also wonder why this issue is not arising on other Windows machines... On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Páli Gábor János <pali.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-10-28 21:49 GMT+01:00 Gintautas Miliauskas <gintau...@miliauskas.lt>: > > Can you try running the offending command with -v to see which step > > breaks? > > I have tried it, even together with building the GHC sources with a > recent toolchain, but I did not get much forward. > > > I tried running it locally under strace but did not see any file renames > > either. > > Although, I think I managed to find the place where some renaming > happens. That is `writeFileAtomic` in Cabal's > Distribution.Simple.Utils module [1]. The bin-package-db library has > a patched version of this function [2] that has a workaround for > Windows. After incorporating this change in Cabal, I was able to pass > the previously problematic point in the build. Unfortunately, this > was not enough for the complete build, as a similar error (with > DeleteFile that time) was raised. > > [1] > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs#L1032 > [2] > https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/libraries/bin-package-db/GHC/PackageDb.hs#L252 > -- Gintautas Miliauskas
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