Simon Marlow
Really we should fix or remove that feature, my vote would be to remove it.
Simon, Thank you for your quick reply. Whatever is done about this feature, I urge a change be made in the documentation as soon as possible. Section two of the Cabal documentation includes Example 3, an example even more complex than the one I sent to the list. It's prominent position in the document suggested to me that this feature is well tested, and that any problem I was having using it was, as they say, user error. I would not have spent so much time rereading the document had I know what I do now. For my application, it is natural to package it as a library and several binaries built on top of the library, so I would like to see this feature supported, but the description of it removed from the documentation until it works. John