GHC installation to an NFS-mounted fails

[boegel]

The build fails as follows:

Registering hoopl-3.8.7.3...
"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" install "<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/lib/ghc-7.4.2/ghc" "<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/lib/ghc-7.4.2/ghc-pkg" "strip" "<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/lib/ghc-7.4.2" compiler stage2 '' '<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED' '<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/lib/ghc-7.4.2' '<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries' NO  
Installing library in
<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/lib/ghc-7.4.2/ghc-7.4.2
ghc-cabal:
<prefix>/software/GHC/7.4.2-goalf-1.1.0-no-OFED/lib/ghc-7.4.2/ghc-7.4.2/Vectorise/.copyFile7186.tmp:
unsupported operation
make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2

Installing GHC to a local directory works just fine.