ghc doesn't properly quote space-containing paths on Windows.

[guest]

1) Install ghc 6.8.1 on Windows XP to "C:\Program Files\ghc\".
2) Run ghc newton.hs (any hs file should work here) from your home directory.

Output :

'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Program Files\ghc\bin/windres: no resources

Something somewhere in the compilation process seems to try to run something in "C:\Program Files\ghc\" but, even though the program it wants to run has spaces in its path, it doesn't quote it properly.

[igloo]

Thanks for the report. As well as fixing this, we should change bindisttest to install into "install here" rather than "installed" so we can catch regressions in this.

[simonmar]

I'm looking at this. The problem is the way we invoke windres, it seems.

[simonmar]

Fixed:

Thu Nov 15 07:57:47 PST 2007  Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>
  * FIX #1828: installing to a patch with spaces in 

[igloo]

Merged