GHC-supplied hsc2hs executable fails if non-ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) code points are in the path
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Description
This issue applies to the executable provided with, at least, GHC 9.4.8, 9.6.6, 9.8.4 and 9.10.1.
On Windows 11 in Windows Terminal, with Hebrew characters (a right-to-left language):
~~~text
❯ D:\שזדס\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\bin\hsc2hs.exe --verbose --cc=D:\שזדס\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\mingw\bin\clang.exe --ld=D:\שזדס\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\mingw\bin\clang.exe -o Dummy.hs Dummy.hsc
Executing: (@./\hsc7C24.rsp) D:\\שזדס\\sr-test\\programs\\x86_64-windows\\ghc-9.8.4\\mingw\\bin\\clang.exe -c ./Dummy_hsc_make.c -o ./Dummy_hsc_make.o
hsc2hs-ghc-9.8.4.exe: fd:3: hGetContents: invalid argument (cannot decode byte sequence starting from 233)
~~~
`Dummy_hsc_make.c` is created and starts:
~~~c
#include "D:\����\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\lib\template-hsc.h"
~~~
With Cyrillic characters (a left-to-right language):
~~~text
❯ D:\Майк\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\bin\hsc2hs.exe --verbose --cc=D:\Майк\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\mingw\bin\clang.exe --ld=D:\Майк\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\mingw\bin\clang.exe -o Dummy.hs Dummy.hsc
Executing: (@./\hsc2E30.rsp) D:\\Майк\\sr-test\\programs\\x86_64-windows\\ghc-9.8.4\\mingw\\bin\\clang.exe -c ./Dummy_hsc_make.c -o ./Dummy_hsc_make.o
compiling ./Dummy_hsc_make.c failed (exit code 1)
rsp file was: "./\\hsc2E30.rsp"
command was: D:\\Майк\\sr-test\\programs\\x86_64-windows\\ghc-9.8.4\\mingw\\bin\\clang.exe -c ./Dummy_hsc_make.c -o ./Dummy_hsc_make.o
error: ./Dummy_hsc_make.c:1:10: fatal error: 'D:\09:\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\lib\template-hsc.h' file not found
#include "D:\09:\sr-test\programs\x86_64-windows\ghc-9.8.4\lib\template-hsc.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
~~~
`Dummy.hsc` is simply:
~~~haskell
module Dummy where
dummy :: IO ()
dummy = pure ()
~~~
The expected behaviour is that `hsc2hs` handles all valid paths on platforms supported by GHC.
(The context is that a Stack user reported this as an issue:
* https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/6670 )
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