Can't install 32-bit ghc-7.8.1 on 64-bit xubuntu 14.04

[kyra]

Hi,

I have unpacked ghc-7.8.1-i386-unknown-linux-deb7.tar.xz to 
~/data/Work/ghc-7.8.1-i386.

Now I have the following:

awson at awsonvirt:~/data/Work/ghc-7.8.1-i386$ ./configure 
--prefix=/home/awson/data/ghc-7.8.1-i386
checking for path to top of build tree... 
utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd-bindist: line 3: 
/home/awson/data/Work/ghc-7.8.1-i386/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: 
No such file or directory
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

ghc-pwd is definitely there but it does not start it seems. Perhaps, the 
system lacks some shared libs or something.

There absolutely no problems with 64-bit ghc.

Regards,
Kyra