diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+* 0.14.0.3 (2019-11-27)
+  - improve local-htfpp
+
 * 0.14.0.2 (2019-11-27)
   - use haskell-src from hackage
 
diff --git a/HTF.cabal b/HTF.cabal
--- a/HTF.cabal
+++ b/HTF.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:             HTF
-Version:          0.14.0.2
+Version:          0.14.0.3
 License:          LGPL-2.1
 License-File:     LICENSE
 Copyright:        (c) 2005-2015 Stefan Wehr
diff --git a/scripts/local-htfpp b/scripts/local-htfpp
--- a/scripts/local-htfpp
+++ b/scripts/local-htfpp
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@
 
 function find_bin()
 {
-    bin=$($find "$TOP/$dist" -name htfpp -type f -executable -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort -r | head -1 | gawk '{print $2}')
+    local d="$TOP/$dist"
+    if [ ! -d "$d" ]; then
+        d="$(dirname $d)"
+    fi
+    bin=$($find "$d" -name htfpp -type f -executable -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort -r | head -1 | gawk '{print $2}')
 }
 
 find_bin