Hi all, I'm trying to build a relocatable package using cabal, and running into some difficulties. I've created / used the following script to attempt to create a relocatable package: https://github.com/gfxmonk/0compile-cabal-build/blob/2cf4a08b146333d9292f6f8... When this is done I have something that looks like it should work, and has an inline package.conf. But when I run the following: ----------------------------------------------- $ export GHC_PACKAGE_PATH="/home/tim/dev/haskell/third-party/haskell-ansi-terminal/haskell-ansi-terminal-linux-x86_64/package.conf:" $ ghc-pkg check There are problems in package ansi-terminal-0.5.5: import-dirs: ${pkgroot}/lib is a relative path library-dirs: ${pkgroot}/lib is a relative path file System/Console/ANSI.hi is missing file System/Console/ANSI/Unix.hi is missing file System/Console/ANSI/Common.hi is missing cannot find libHSansi-terminal-0.5.5.a on library path The following packages are broken, either because they have a problem listed above, or because they depend on a broken package. ansi-terminal-0.5.5 ----------------------------------------------- So it looks like: - I need to set more environment variabes so that ghc can find the parts of the package (e.g libHSansi-terminal-0.5.5.a). Unfortunately, I don't know what "library path" refers to in the above message (I tried $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $LIB_PATH to no avail). - ghc doesn't seem to support ${pkgroot} prefixes. I thought it did, but I'm new to this so I may be misunderstanding where they can be used. Can anyone suggest what I might need to fix (either in the package.conf or in my environment variables) to get this working? I've uploaded my package.conf here, apologies for the lack of formatting: https://gist.github.com/59a0d3e69751c3932579 Additionally, the paths that come out of cabal build have the compiler name and version hard coded, e.g lib/packagename/ghc-7.0.4/*. Is there any way to configure how this path is constructed to get rid of the ghd-7.0.4 part? If I need to add $DISTDIR/ansi-terminal-0.5.5/ghc-7.0.4/ to a library path, it would be much easier to declare that if it didn't depend on the version of GHC used. Assume that since I'm building a standalone package, there is no problem with collisions (packages for other versions of GHC or other compilers would have a different $PREFIX). I'd really like to get relocatable packages working, so any help or guidance would be appreciated. Cheers, - Tim.