Hi Richard,
Would this fix #9047? Yay!
I believe so. But currently "validate" itself fails: ---- for i in driver/ghc-usage.txt driver/ghci-usage.txt includes/dist-derivedconsta nts/header/platformConstants settings; do case $i in *.a) /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i "/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619"; ranlib "/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619"/` basename $i` ;; *.dll) /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $i "/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bin disttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619" ; : "/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindistt est/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619"/`basename $i` ;; *.so) /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $i "/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140 619" ;; *.dylib) /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $i "/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindistte st/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619";; *) /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i "/Us ers/kazu/work/ghc/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619"; esac; done /usr/local/bin/gcc -E -m64 -undef -traditional -Wno-invalid-pp-token -Wno-unico de -Wno-trigraphs -P -DINSTALLING -DLIB_DIR='"/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindisttest/i nstall dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619"' -DINCLUDE_DIR='"/Users/kazu/work/ghc/bindist test/install dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619/include"' -DPAPI_INCLUDE_DIR="" -DPAPI_L IB_DIR="" -DFFI_INCLUDE_DIR= -DFFI_LIB_DIR= '-DFFI_LIB="Cffi"' -x c -Iincludes - Iincludes/dist -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist-ghcconsta nts/header rts/package.conf.in -o rts/dist/package.conf.install.raw clang: error: no such file or directory: 'dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619"' clang: error: no such file or directory: 'dir/lib/ghc-7.9.20140619/include"' ---- In the bindisttest directory, the "dir" directory does not exist. Strangely "install dir" directory exist instead. P.S. Yesterday I could not "validate" for GHC HEAD on Linux either for another reason. --Kazu