I think the last time make install worked for me was sometime in February or March 2013. The build succeeds but make install fails.

mk/build.mk:

BuildFlavour = perf
V = 0

Steps to reproduce:

$ perl boot
$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ghc/7.7.20130827
$ make
$ make install
[...]
Installing library in
/tmp/ghc/7.7.20130827/lib/ghc-7.7.20130827/haskell2010-1.1.1.0
"/tmp/ghc/7.7.20130827/lib/ghc-7.7.20130827/bin/ghc-pkg" --force
--global-package-db
"/tmp/ghc/7.7.20130827/lib/ghc-7.7.20130827/package.conf.d" update
rts/dist/package.conf.install
/tmp/ghc/7.7.20130827/lib/ghc-7.7.20130827/bin/ghc-pkg: error while
loading shared libraries:
libHSbin-package-db-0.0.0.0-ghc7.7.20130827.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 127
make: *** [install] Error 2

Related mailing list threads:

• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-August/002167.html
• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-April/000995.html
• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-March/000822.html