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ghcup-0.1.14 fails to install GHC on Windows Linux Subsystem

While this is not crucial (as Windows in general, and WLS in articular is not my real development platform), I still want to bring your attention to this strange error:

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Somehow, it fails now to install GHC. Same error as shown above, regardless of what GHC version I'm requesting. But it installed Cabal-3.4.0.0 successfully.

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This is from ~/.ghcup/logs/ghc-make.log (again, 8.10.4 and 9.0.1 installations fail in exactly the same way in exactly the same place). Screen_Shot_2021-03-16_at_16.37.39

This is on Windows-10, under it's Linux Subsystem (Ubuntu). Everything's patched.

I must add that on MacOS and on CentOS Linux, ghcup seems to install everything just fine (got GHC-8.10.4, GHC-9.0.1, Cabal-3.4.0.0, HLS-1.0.0 - all running).

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