Ahh...I see. Thanks Brandon. I was unaware of that. ~Caitlin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM, J. Garrett Morris <jgmor...@cs.pdx.edu>wrote: > >> > Why is it trying to create "."? >> >> You can specify -o<dir> with a directory that doesn't exist; perhaps GHC >> always tries to create the output directory? >> >> In any case, I can confirm the observed behavior with GHC 7.6.1 on >> Windows 8, running with elevated privilege. It seems to only be a >> problem in the root directory tho---while I can observe the problem in >> both C:\ and D:\, I can't in any subdirectories thereof. >> > > That makes a certain amount of sense; the root directory of a drive is > treated somewhat specially for backward compatibility reasons. (In > particular, "." is emulated --- on FAT, at least, neither "." nor ".." > exists in a drive root, and this behavior may well be emulated to keep from > confusing older programs.) > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > >
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