Trying to install ghc-8.0.1-x86_64-centos67-linux.tar.xz with: ./configure --prefix={prefix} make install-strip gives me an error. The tail of the log is: Registering ghc-8.0.1... for f in '{prefix}/lib/ghc-8.0.1/package.conf.d'/*; do create () { touch "$1" && chmod 644 "$1" ; } && create "$f"; done /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "{prefix}/bin" for i in utils/hp2ps/dist/build/tmp/hp2ps; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -s $i "{prefix}/bin" ; \ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "{prefix}/lib/ghc-8.0.1/bin" for i in inplace/lib/bin/ghc-split; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $i "{prefix}/lib/ghc-8.0.1/bin"; \ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1" /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/index.html "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html" /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html/libraries" for i in libraries/dist-haddock/*; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html/libraries/"; \ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libraries/prologue.txt "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html/libraries/" /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 libraries/gen_contents_index "{prefix}/share/doc/ghc-8.0.1/html/libraries/" mkdir: cannot create directory `doc/aries/ghc-prim-0.5.0.0': No such file or directory Is there any way of knowing what the call to mkdir is relative to, and why it's trying to create the directory there? -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Cannot-install-8-0-1-from-bindist-tp583... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.