Re: link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

2007-09-12 Thread Simon Marlow
Conal Elliott wrote: Thanks for that tip. Here's what the problematic file contains: 1 24 MOVEABLE PURE "dist\build\eros\eros.exe.manifest" Now I can see that the "unrecognized escape sequences" come from missing back-slashes. I guess "dist\build", the "\b" is getting interpreted as a back

Re: link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

2007-09-11 Thread Simon Marlow
Conal Elliott wrote: Thanks for that tip. Here's what the problematic file contains: 1 24 MOVEABLE PURE "dist\build\eros\eros.exe.manifest" Now I can see that the "unrecognized escape sequences" come from missing back-slashes. I guess "dist\build", the "\b" is getting interpreted as a back

Re: link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

2007-09-10 Thread Conal Elliott
Thanks for that tip. Here's what the problematic file contains: 1 24 MOVEABLE PURE "dist\build\eros\eros.exe.manifest" Now I can see that the "unrecognized escape sequences" come from missing back-slashes. I guess "dist\build", the "\b" is getting interpreted as a backspace, thus becoming "dis

Re: link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

2007-09-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:47:43AM -0700, Conal Elliott wrote: > > I don't know what was in c:/tmp/ghc2268_0/ghc2268_0.rc. It was gone before > I could look. If you add the -keep-tmp-files flag then it shouldn't be deleted. Thanks Ian ___ Cvs-ghc ma

Re: link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

2007-09-10 Thread 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the following error while linking haddock.ghc using the snapshot > ghc-6.7.200708

link-time error: unrecognized escape sequence

2007-09-07 Thread Conal Elliott
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.r