I just built a GHC 9.4 bindist on FreeBSD 12, and found that the bindist Makefile installed unusable wrappers when the source was a symlink. It seems plausible that the issue may not be FreeBSD-specific, but that's all I've tried so far. The problem wrappers do not have execute permissions, and lack the variable settings at the top of the scripts needed to make them work: $ ls -l ~/.local/ghc-9.4/bin total 98 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 45 Aug 10 21:46 ghc -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 406 Aug 10 21:46 ghc-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 97 Aug 10 21:46 ghc-pkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 466 Aug 10 21:46 ghc-pkg-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 67 Aug 10 21:46 ghci -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 430 Aug 10 21:46 ghci-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 57 Aug 10 21:46 haddock -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 434 Aug 10 21:46 haddock-ghc-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 33 Aug 10 21:46 hp2ps -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 406 Aug 10 21:46 hp2ps-ghc-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 33 Aug 10 21:46 hpc -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 402 Aug 10 21:46 hpc-ghc-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 734 Aug 10 21:46 hsc2hs -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 1109 Aug 10 21:46 hsc2hs-ghc-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 50 Aug 10 21:46 runghc -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 417 Aug 10 21:46 runghc-9.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 viktor viktor 50 Aug 10 21:46 runhaskell -rwxr-xr-x 1 viktor viktor 425 Aug 10 21:46 runhaskell-9.4.1 $ (cd ~/.local/ghc-9.4; grep . $(find bin ! -name hsc2hs ! -perm -001)) bin/ghci:executable="$bindir/ghc-9.4.1" bin/ghci:exec $executable --interactive "$@" bin/ghc:exec "$executablename" -B"$libdir" ${1+"$@"} bin/haddock:exec "$executablename" -B"$libdir" -l"$libdir" ${1+"$@"} bin/hp2ps:exec "$executablename" ${1+"$@"} bin/ghc-pkg:PKGCONF="$libdir/package.conf.d" bin/ghc-pkg:exec "$executablename" --global-package-db "$PKGCONF" ${1+"$@"} bin/runghc:exec "$executablename" -f "$exedir/ghc" ${1+"$@"} bin/hpc:exec "$executablename" ${1+"$@"} bin/runhaskell:exec "$executablename" -f "$exedir/ghc" ${1+"$@"} The same holds for "hsc2hs", but the "meat" of the script is longer so I chose to skip it. -- Viktor.