On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 22:48 -0500, Austin Seipp wrote: > Windows will not let you modify/delete binaries if they're running as a > process, and it won't let you delete .DLL files that're in use by > applications either (mapped to shared memory, that is.) So cabal > install cannot overwrite the cabal.exe binary after it builds it, > because it's already running. > > I'm not sure anybody's found an adequate solution yet (Duncan?) - .bat > files maybe?
Indeed it is a nasty problem. I solved it in cabal-install-0.5.2 using cunning trickery. For details see: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/291 Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
