Dear Cafe, I have recently run into a very annoying issue that I was not able to get around. I have a local package that makes use of the snappy compression library, which boasts bindings to C++ through a C wrapper. Everything compiles fine with ghc --make, but cabal install hits a wall when TemplateHaskell kicks in and decides to load the entire dependency chain. Here is the important bit of the error message I get after running "cabal install" Loading package snappy-0.2.0.0 ... linking ... ghc: /home/ubuntu/.cabal/lib/snappy-0.2.0.0/ghc-7.0.3/HSsnappy-0.2.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_ZTV8BSSource' ghc: unable to load package `snappy-0.2.0.0' I'm quite certain all the libs are in PATH. "cabal install snappy" installs fine when typed separately by itself and everything works fine (the program works, including compression via snappy) when I compile my local package with ghc --make. The problem only occurs on a Ubuntu 64-bit server, and I wasn't able to replicate the issue on my local OS X box. On my local, cabal install works just fine. I did find a previous note on Cafe with the exact same problem, but no solution was posted at the time: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-December/087748.html Any help is much appreciated. Cheers, Ozgun