On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > on a Win32 (SP3) machine using the Haskell Platform and GHC-7.6.1 >> > (standalone) and I have noticed the same frustrating errors. Any >> > suggestions would be most appreciated. >> > >> Are you certain you have write permission for C:\? I'm not terribly with >> how Windows handles file permissions, but the error seems pretty > > > I suspect it's more fundamental than that. > >> *** Exception: CreateDirectory ".": permission denied (Access is denied.) > > > 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. /g -- Sent from my mail client. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users