Installing latest GHC-6.8.2 stable: pwd with floating point exception (#2211) · Issues · Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC

Installing latest GHC-6.8.2 stable: pwd with floating point exception

I tried to install

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080410-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

on Kubuntu. It was reported to be build properly:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-April/041915.html

but I get:

/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080410> ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-unknown-linux
checking for path to top of build tree... configure: error: cannot determine current directory

From other reports I got to know that this might have to do with the custom 'pwd' of ghc installation. Indeed I get:

/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080410> ./utils/pwd/pwd
Floating point exception

Trac metadata

Trac field	Value
Version	6.8.2
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
Test case
Differential revisions
BlockedBy
Related
Blocking
CC	ghc@henning-thielemann.de
Operating system
Architecture

I tried to install

> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080410-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

on Kubuntu. It was reported to be build properly:

> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-April/041915.html

but I get:

```
/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080410> ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-unknown-linux
checking for path to top of build tree... configure: error: cannot determine current directory
```

From other reports I got to know that this might have to do with the custom 'pwd' of ghc installation. Indeed I get:

```
/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080410> ./utils/pwd/pwd
Floating point exception
```

<details><summary>Trac metadata</summary>

| Trac field             | Value                     |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Version                | 6.8.2                     |
| Type                   | Bug                       |
| TypeOfFailure          | OtherFailure              |
| Priority               | normal                    |
| Resolution             | Unresolved                |
| Component              | Compiler                  |
| Test case              |                           |
| Differential revisions |                           |
| BlockedBy              |                           |
| Related                |                           |
| Blocking               |                           |
| CC                     | ghc@henning-thielemann.de |
| Operating system       |                           |
| Architecture           |                           |

</details>