RE: GHC doesn't doesn't clean up the way it should

Ok, can you provide a sample command line that I can use to reproduce
the problem?  Maybe you need to provide the preprocessor program too (a
perl script will probably do).

Cheers,
        Simon

On 05 May 2004 15:42, Josef Svenningsson wrote:

> Yep, the temporary file is still there. The funny thing is that this
> doesn't happen with all files. In my little test case with two
> Haskell modules only one of them gets a temp file left behind. What
> more information can I give to help you track this one down?
> 
> Thanks for the pointer to the documentation!
> 
>       /Josef
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Marlow [mailto:simonmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: den 5 maj 2004 15:33
> To: Josef Svenningsson; glasgow-haskell-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: GHC doesn't doesn't clean up the way it should
> 
> On 05 May 2004 13:09, Josef Svenningsson wrote:
> 
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> Here's a mini-bug.
>> 
>> I'm playing around with adding preprocessors to GHC. I'm using the
>> flags -F and -pgmF for that. Since these are not terribly well
>> documented I wanted to run with -v to see what happens. This showed
>> the following: 
>> 
>> *** Haskell pre-processor
>> trharp TestHarp.hs TestHarp.hs
>> c:\DOCUME~1\JOSEFS~1\LOKALA~1\Temp\ghc2708.hspp
>> ...
>> *** Deleting temp files
>> Deleting: c:/DOCUME~1/JOSEFS~1/LOKALA~1/Temp/ghc2708.hc
>> Warning: deleting non-existent
>> c:/DOCUME~1/JOSEFS~1/LOKALA~1/Temp/ghc2708.hc
>> 
>> 
>> Seems like GHC didn't remember the suffix of the file to delete.
> 
> Does it really leave the temporary file behind?  I tried it here and
> it deleted the file.
> 
>> This happens with 6.2.1.
>> 
>> I also would like some more documentation on -F. Why does it send the
>> program to be mangled twice to the pre-processor for instance?
> 
> The syntax of the command line is documented under the -pgmF option,
> which you may have missed because -pgmF is documented in two places (I
> just fixed that).  See here:
> 
>
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/options-phases.h
> tml#PRE-PROCESSOR
> 
> Cheers,
>       Simon