"pnpm install" does not create a .bin directory

[zsombro]

I'm on a MacBook Pro with Sequoia 15.4.1 using pnpm 9.3.0

I'm trying to run "pnpm install" in a repo and one of the packages has a postinstall script that consistently fails. After digging through verbose output, I found that it's trying to run Vite, but can't find it in the default path and I noticed that there is no .bin folder in my node_modules root.

Does pnpm work differently in this regard from npm or am I missing something? I tried reinstalling multiple times with variations: using the pnpm-lock file in the repo, importing the old package-lock from npm, but the behavior does not change.

Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
Thank you in advance for any help