I know we are supposed to be using Hadrian now, but is the old build system supposed to be broken? A clean build fails with "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" check libraries/ghc-prim "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure libraries/ghc-prim dist-install --with-ghc="/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" --with-ghc-pkg="/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg" --disable-library-for-ghci --enable-library-vanilla --enable-library-for-ghci --disable-library-profiling --enable-shared --configure-option=CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=inline" --configure-option=LDFLAGS=" " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS=" " --gcc-options="-Wall -Werror=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=inline " --with-gcc="gcc" --with-ld="ld.gold" --with-ar="ar" --with-alex="/usr/bin/alex" --with-happy="/usr/bin/happy" Configuring ghc-prim-0.6.1... ghc-cabal: '/home/simonpj/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1' exited with an error: Failed to read "target arch" value "" libraries/ghc-prim/ghc.mk:4: recipe for target 'libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/package-data.mk' failed make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1 Makefile:123: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 simonpj@MSRC-3645512:~/code/HEAD$