Re: getDirectoryContents fails in GHC 6.5 snapshots, works in GHC 6.4.1 snapshots

On 8/8/05, Simon Marlow <simonmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29 July 2005 23:53, Brian Smith wrote:
> 
> > On 7/20/05, Brian Smith <brianlsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> This bug breaks Cabal 1.0 and Cabal 1.1.1.
> >> Expected results: passed
> >> Actual results: *** Exception: c:\: getDirectoryContents: failed (No
> >> error)
> >>
> I tried various versions and couldn't reproduce the error.  I tried:

Yes, it fails for every directory. I actually noticed the problem by
when using Cabal, which uses getDirectoryContents. But, I did some
more testing. This works:

    > ghc --make Main.lhs -o main
    > main
    passed

But, this fails:

    > ghci Main.lhs
    Prelude Main> main
        *** Exception: C:\temp\bugs\getDirectoryContents:
getDirectoryContents: failed (
No error)

and this fails:

    > runghc Main.lhs
    *** Exception: C:\temp\bugs\getDirectoryContents:
getDirectoryContents: failed (
No error)    

This indicates to me that there is not any problem with my filesystem.
Instead, it seems like it is likely a problem with the linker. Now, I
see what the cause of the problem is:

http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/cvs-ghc/2005-June/025579.html
Sigbjorn Finne sof at galois.com wrote on Mon Jun 20 12:29:24 EDT 2005:
> I'll switch over to using gcc-3.4.2 for the nightly builds to see where takes 
> us.

And, in my previous message I wrote:

> Build 20050620 works fine, but Build 20050622 fails.
> I noticed that on 2005-06-21 the build failed. I also noticed that
> before 2005-06-21, the tar.gz's are ~1 larger than the ones after
> 2005-06-21.

- Brian