[Haskell-cafe] How to direct cabal to use an alternative ghc version, ala stack?

Hi all, How do I direct cabal to use an alternative (i.e. - not my system’s default) version of ghc, which I’ve installed, via stack? I tried this: stack exec cabal install ... but got this: cabal: Use of GHC's environment variable GHC_PACKAGE_PATH is incompatible with Cabal. Use the flag --package-db to specify a package database (it can be used multiple times). Thanks, -db