New versions of windres fail with "windres: CreateProcess (null): No error"

Initially reported here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-September/044944.html

This version of windres:

windres.exe -V
GNU windres 2.17.50 20060824

fails with:

Linking dist\build\haddock\haddock.exe ...
*** Windres:
C:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\bin/windres
--preprocessor="C:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\gcc"
 "-BC:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\gcc-lib/" "-E" "-xc" "-DRC_INVOKED"
--use-temp-file
--input=C:\DOCUME~1\nmitche6\LOCALS~1\Temp\/ghc704_0/ghc704_0.rc
--output=C:\DOC
UME~1\nmitche6\LOCALS~1\Temp\/ghc704_0/ghc704_0.o --output-format=coff
C:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\bin/windres: CreateProcess (null): No error

GNU windres 2.15.91 20040904 works fine.

Trac metadata

Trac field	Value
Version	6.9
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	high
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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Operating system	Unknown
Architecture	Unknown