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ghci-8.10.1 not working with profiling enabled

Summary

$ ghc-8.10.1 --interactive
GHCi, version 8.10.1: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help

<interactive>:1:1: error:
    Failed to load interface for ‘GHC.Types’
    Perhaps you haven't installed the profiling libraries for package ‘ghc-prim-0.6.1’?
    Use -v (or `:set -v` in ghci) to see a list of the files searched for.

Steps to reproduce

compile ghc-8.10.1 with the following build.mk:

V=0
BUILD_MAN = NO
BUILD_SPHINX_HTML = NO
BUILD_SPHINX_PDF = NO
HADDOCK_DOCS = YES
GhcWithLlvmCodeGen = YES
BuildFlavour = perf-llvm
GhcLibHcOpts += -g3
GhcProfiled = YES
GhcLibWays += p

Environment

  • GHC version used: 8.10.1

Optional:

  • Operating System: Linux
  • System Architecture: amd64
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