suggests that it wants "--libdir=../c_lib" instead of "--libdir ../c_lib". Could this be the case? I'd like to think it would parse them pretty much the same way but you can never be sure... Hi Dougal. Thanks for your suggestion. This might be the case. But is not here. (I could have bet that my mail was to long to be read completely ;) But I didn't know how to shorten it even more.
Have another look at my shell line. 1. it runs ./setup -v build || echo -e "\n\n ===> build failed \n\n"; which doesn't create Greencard.hs but prints the greencard command beeing executed. This command line is then beeing grepped for and passed to eval to be executed: 2. eval `./setup -v build 2>&1 | grep /usr/local/bin/greencard` which invokes the greencard command containing --lbidir ../c_lib which works fine which the final ls shows.. (Greencard.hs exists then) That's the odd thing I can't cope with at the moment.. Marc