On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

I'm confused.

Same here :-)

What does make show VALUE=BASE_LIBDIR say in testsuite/tests?

BASE_LIBDIR="/usr/home/user/ghc-validate/libraries/base/dist-install/build /usr/local/lib" Ah, it seems there is another directory added? I was completely under the impression that the problem is that the binary distribution is installed to the directory with spaces in its name.

What command is being run to cause the error?

I guess this is the HAVE_* lines, the [ -f file ] part that you have changed in the commit. See http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/pgj/1033/18.html for the details. There you should find a lot of error messages like this one: [: /tmp/builder/tempbuild/build/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20130512/base-4.7.0.0: unexpected operator

Does this work on FreeBSD?: [ -f "foo bar"baz ] && echo yes

No output. But: $ [ -f "foo bar" baz ] && echo yes [: foo bar: unexpected operator

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

Oh, sorry, it's actually make show VALUE=BASE_LIBDIR BINDIST=YES that we want.

BASE_LIBDIR=""/usr/home/user/ghc-working/bindisttest/install dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20130510/base-4.7.0.0" /usr/local/lib"

what does the actual shell command look like once all the make variable expansion has happened?

if [ -f /usr/home/user/ghc-working/libraries/base/dist-install/build /usr/local/lib/Prelude.hi ]; then echo YES; else echo NO; fi

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

I've made it use ghc-prim rather than base, so we shouldn't get this extra directory. Hopefully that will fix it.

Cool, thanks! I can locally confirm that it indeed does the trick, hope the nightly builders will think the same. I think the extra directory for base is related to the fact that the FreeBSD version keeps the third-party additions under /usr/local.