Thanks Duncan and Sven for your helpful answers. Per Larsson
P.S Now everything seems to work, except that I get the compiler message: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.2/libHSunix.a(User__17.o)(.text+0x160): In function 'SystemziPosixziUser_getUserEntryForName_entry': : Using 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking This seems to indicate that there are a few functions (probably in the Posix package) which can't be can't be statically linked? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe