GHC 6.0: warning!

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:53:47 +0100


=20
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:49:38PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > Some of you have already discovered that GHC 6.0 has a=20
> nasty bug: if you
> > go
> > 	ghci foo\Baz.hs
> > and there is any error at all in Baz.hs, then GHC deletes the source
> > file!   This seems like excessive punishment for a type error.
>=20
> And it doesn't even require a type error as an excuse for punishment!
>=20
> .. if the source file is specified as ./file.hs
>=20
> Example:
>=20
>   $ echo "module T where" > T.hs && ghc --make ./T.hs -v
>   ...
>   Deleting: ./T.hs
> =20
>=20
> This is on linux, don't know about windows..

Now fixed, thanks for the report.

Cheers,
	Simon