I saw this same thing the other day. I recall that some make file variable like GHC_TOP was ending up empty for some reason. I used the same workaround as you. I'm on OS X. I was using a separate build tree and the wrinkle I suspected was that I cloned nofib and lndir'd it after having already built. HTH On May 9, 2013 5:37 PM, "Amos Robinson" wrote:

Hi all,

I've just tried running 'make' in nofib and it's not finding ../inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 for some reason. So it tries to execute "/BLAH/ghc/ghc-head/" as if it were ghc (but it's a directory).

The error message is:

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/bin/sh: /Users/amos/ghc/ghc-head/: is a directory /bin/sh: line 0: [: -gt: unary operator expected /bin/sh: line 0: [: -ge: unary operator expected ... /Users/amos/ghc/ghc-head/ -H64m -O0 -fasm -O2 -Rghc-timing -package array -H32m -hisuf hi -c Main.hs -o Main.omake[2]: /Users/amos/ghc/ghc-head/: Permission denied

I tried on another box - Linux - and had much the same issue. Has anyone seen this before? Any clues what might be wrong? Nofib was building fine on the Linux box a few weeks ago, but I think it stopped working after a sync-all.

For now though, I'll just try building with

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WithNofibHc=/Users/amos/ghc/ghc-head/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 make which seems to work.

Thanks, Amos

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