"cannot find normal object file" error during compilation

When I try to compile tests provided in the singletons package I get the following error:

Building singletons-0.9.3...
Preprocessing library singletons-0.9.3...
In-place registering singletons-0.9.3...
Preprocessing test suite 'compile' for singletons-0.9.3...
[ 6 of 20] Compiling Data.Singletons.Core ( Data/Singletons/Core.hs, dist/build/compile/compile-tmp/Data/Singletons/Core.o )
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package array-0.5.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package deepseq-1.3.0.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package containers-0.5.3.1 ... linking ... done.
Loading package transformers-0.3.0.0 ... linking ... done.
Loading package mtl-2.1.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package syb-0.4.1 ... linking ... done.
Loading package pretty-1.1.1.1 ... linking ... done.
Loading package template-haskell ... linking ... done.
Loading package th-desugar-1.2.1 ... linking ... done.
Loading package newtype-0.2 ... linking ... done.
Loading package constraints-0.3.4.2 ... linking ... done.
Data/Singletons/Core.hs:1:1:
    cannot find normal object file ‛dist/build/compile/compile-tmp/Data/Singletons/Util.dyn_o’
    while linking an interpreted expression

This happens on HEAD but not on 7.6.3. Steps to reproduce:

1. Download and extract singletons source code
2. In the cabal file uncomment test-suite section (which is commented out because it doesn't work)
3. cabal configure --enable-tests && cabal build

Reproducing this requires installing packages required by singletons. I'm setting milestone to 7.8 as this is something that looks like a blocker in a stable release.

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.7
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	high
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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