> The way to do this is described on a wiki page in the developers corner:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Debugging/InstallingPackagesInplace 
> (scroll down 
> to "Plan B" on this page) 
Thanks, that helped.

What I should have mentioned is that I am sandboxing my GHC installations, so 
whenever I compile 
HEAD I can switch to a different sandbox and install the new compiler within 
that sandbox. Now I 
can just install packages into user database without worrying that my original 
database gets 
cluttered with duplicate libraries. I managed to install some of the packages 
using plan B. This 
is tedious (I'd rather have dependencies resolved, downloaded and installed 
automatically by 
cabal) but works as long as packages from hackage are compatible with HEAD. 
Unfortunately some of 
them are not, which prevents me from installing libraries that I need (like 
blaze-builder) but I 
guess that can't be helped.

Janek

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