ghc-6.6 + cabal-1.6 - can't find header files

[Alistair Bayley]

2009/1/27 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:02 +0000, Alistair Bayley wrote:
>> 2009/1/27 Alistair Bayley <alistair at abayley.org>:
>> > I'm puzzled as to why this build fails (ghc-6.6.1, cabal-1.6 (actually
>> > HEAD, I think, but close enough, and winXP). The sqlite.h header file
>> > is in C:\Progra~1\sqlite3\, which is clearly given with the -I option.
>>
>> Turns out it's the trailing backslash in the path C:\Progra~1\sqlite3\
>> (same error for slashes, too). !?
>
> I am very surprised. Is that problem at the gcc level? Does specifying
> paths with trailing dir separator cause this problem for gcc in a simple
> test case?
>
> If it really is a problem with gcc on windows perhaps ghc can use an
> updated gcc in future releases or we could try stripping trailing dir
> separators on include dirs in Cabal.

I think it's only ghc-6.6, but I'll retest against 6.8 and 6.10. If
it's only 6.6 then I'm not going to sweat it.

Alistair