Hello Martin, Here's just some minor additional context information...
On 2015-01-01 at 19:01:53 +0100, Martin Foster wrote: [...] > - I note "./sync-all --help" says, under "Flags", that "--windows also > clones the ghc-tarballs repository (enabled by default on Windows)", and > I've confirmed that default behaviour experimentally - but > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources tells > you to manually clone ghc-tarballs when on Windows. Is that line on the > wiki obsolete, or am I overlooking something? Somewhat related: when https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339 is landed, we can finally forget about having to clone that objectionable ghc-tarballs repo... [...] > I noticed that the cabal output made reference to > "C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Roaming\cabal\", so tried moving that out of the > way, but it only made the problem worse. I did figure it out eventually: in > addition to that directory, "%APPDATA%\cabal", there were also files left > over in "%APPDATA%\ghc". Once I removed that directory as well, things > started working again - but it took me a lot of time & frustration to get > there. That's btw because Cabal/GHC uses `getAppUserDataDirectory "cabal"` and `getAppUserDataDirectory "ghc"` respectively... Cheers, hvr _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs