[GHC] #14021: 8.2.1 deb8 bindist fails to install on Windows 10 WSL

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#14021: 8.2.1 deb8 bindist fails to install on Windows 10 WSL
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        Reporter:  bgamari           |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.2
       Component:  Build System      |              Version:  8.2.1
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Description changed by bgamari:

Old description:

> In principle the GHC 8.2.1 bindist for Debian 8 should work fine on WSL.
> However, in practice it fails during `make install` with this error,
> {{{
> }}}

New description:

 In principle the GHC 8.2.1 bindist for Debian 8 should work fine on WSL.
 However, in practice it fails during `make install` with this error,
 {{{
 "utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal-bindist" copy libraries
 /integer-gmp dist-install "strip" '' '/home/ben/roots/ghc/8.2.1'
 '/home/ben/roots/ghc/8.2.1/lib/ghc-8.2.1'
 '/home/ben/roots/ghc/8.2.1/share/doc/ghc-8.2.1/html/libraries' 'v p dyn'
 ./integer-gmp.cabal has been changed. Re-configuring with most recently
 used
 options. If this fails, please run configure manually.
 Configuring integer-gmp-1.0.1.0...
 ghc-cabal: Cannot find the program 'ghc'. User-specified path
 '/home/ben/bin-dist-8.2.1-Linux/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1' does not refer
 to
 an executable and the program is not on the system path.
 ghc.mk:986: recipe for target 'install_packages' failed
 make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1
 Makefile:51: recipe for target 'install' failed
 make: *** [install] Error 2
 }}}

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