Dear Cafe, I'm not sure it is a bug or just designed behavior? But I can't install profiling-enabled exe with cabal 3.2.0.0, while direct running works correctly. $ cabal --version cabal-install version 3.2.0.0 compiled using version 3.2.0.0 of the Cabal library $ cabal run --enable-profiling --enable-executable-profiling exe:els -- +RTS --info Up to date [("GHC RTS", "YES") ,("GHC version", "8.8.4") ,("RTS way", "rts_thr_p") ,("Build platform", "x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Build architecture", "x86_64") ,("Build OS", "darwin") ,("Build vendor", "apple") ,("Host platform", "x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Host architecture", "x86_64") ,("Host OS", "darwin") ,("Host vendor", "apple") ,("Target platform", "x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Target architecture", "x86_64") ,("Target OS", "darwin") ,("Target vendor", "apple") ,("Word size", "64") ,("Compiler unregisterised", "NO") ,("Tables next to code", "YES") ,("Flag -with-rtsopts", "-maxN31 -qg") ] $ cabal install --enable-profiling --overwrite-policy=always --enable-executable-profiling exe:els && els +RTS --info Wrote tarball sdist to ... Resolving dependencies... Up to date Copying 'els' [("GHC RTS", "YES") ,("GHC version", "8.8.4") ,("RTS way", "rts_thr") ,("Build platform", "x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Build architecture", "x86_64") ,("Build OS", "darwin") ,("Build vendor", "apple") ,("Host platform", "x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Host architecture", "x86_64") ,("Host OS", "darwin") ,("Host vendor", "apple") ,("Target platform", "x86_64-apple-darwin") ,("Target architecture", "x86_64") ,("Target OS", "darwin") ,("Target vendor", "apple") ,("Word size", "64") ,("Compiler unregisterised", "NO") ,("Tables next to code", "YES") ,("Flag -with-rtsopts", "-maxN31 -qg") ] $ cabal install --enable-profiling --overwrite-policy=always --enable-executable-profiling exe:els && els +RTS -p Wrote tarball sdist to ... Resolving dependencies... Up to date Copying 'els' els: the flag -p requires the program to be built with -prof els: els: Usage: <prog> <args> [+RTS <rtsopts> | -RTS <args>] ... --RTS <args> els: ... Is there other options to get a profiling enabled exe installed? Thanks with regards, Compl