link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

[Conal Elliott]

I get this very same error on a clean build with STABLE ghc-6.8.20070909 (on
Windows).  Any ideas on what's going wrong here and how to fix it?

  - Conal

On 9/7/07, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
>
> I get the following error while linking haddock.ghc using the snapshot
> ghc-6.7.20070824-i386-unknown-mingw32.exe .
>     ...
>     [17 of 17] Compiling Main             ( src/Main.hs,
> dist\build\haddock\haddock-tmp/Main.o )
>     Linking dist\build\haddock\haddock.exe ...
>     c:/tmp/ghc2268_0/ghc2268_0.rc:1: unrecognized escape sequence
>     c:/tmp/ghc2268_0/ghc2268_0.rc:1: unrecognized escape sequence
>     c:\ghc\ghc-6.7.20070824\bin/windres: can't open font file
> `disuild\haddock\haddock.exe.manifest': Invalid argument
>
> I don't know what was in c:/tmp/ghc2268_0/ghc2268_0.rc.  It was gone
> before I could look.  Strange name "disuild", which maybe is supposed to be
> "dist\build".  I wonder if the "\b" is getting interpreted as a backspace.
> There is a "dist/build/Haddock/haddock.exe.manifest".
>
>   - Conal
>
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