'data-files' and .stack-work were really good hints. Thank you, Erik.
I rsynced the whole .stack-work dir over now and this lets me successfully 
run gitit on the smaller VM. Ok, when I say "run", I mean "start", but it 
is something.
The folder in question has 500 MB, however, and I'd rather not transfer 
that much. After a bit of random action, it appears safe to delete files 
outside the gitit folder deeply nested within .stack-work, but I cannot be 
sure.
Do you have further input on that? Can I collect these files with stack (or 
cabal?) automatically?

Matthias

On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 3:14:52 PM UTC+2, Erik Hesselink wrote:
>
> This is due to the fact that gitit uses cabal's "data-files" section to 
> make data files available at runtime. These are installed in the path 
> mentioned in the error on the machine where you built, so they will be 
> missing on the machine where you copied the binary. This was the reason we 
> stopped using data-files, but obviously that won't work for you. I've 
> looked briefly into getting stack to write these data files to a different 
> (relative?) path so you could copy them over with the executable, but was 
> unable to find anything. Maybe someone else with more stack knowledge can 
> chime in on that?
>
> Erik
>
> On 1 September 2016 at 23:08, Matthias Kauer <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the insight you provided. I'm having some trouble with the 
>> mailing list and retyping now.
>>
>> I tried the straightforward approach again today.
>> Built gitit with `stack install` on 1 VM then copied it over to another. 
>> Both Ubuntu 14.04.
>>
>> Running on the second VM yields:
>> ```
>> vagrant@trusty:~$ ./gitit 
>> gitit: 
>> /home/vagrant/gitit/.stack-work/install/x86_64-linux/lts-4.0/7.10.3/share/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.3/gitit-0.12.1.1/data/default.conf:
>>  
>> openFile: inappropriate type (Not a directory)
>> ```
>>
>> Is this a gitit specific error? Or am I just missing some artifacts from 
>> the build process?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Matthias Kauer
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 9:24:22 PM UTC+2, Matthias Hörmann wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello 
>>>
>>> If you are using the same OS on both your compile and production 
>>> system and do have all the non-Haskell libraries you are linking 
>>> installed on both 
>>> you should be able to just copy the binary without any special options 
>>> during stack build. 
>>>
>>> I have done it for dozens of different projects. 
>>>
>>> Usually you need libgmp3c2, libpcre3 and zlib1g on Debian-based 
>>> systems and possibly a database C library if the Haskell library for 
>>> that you are using is 
>>> just a wrapper around the C version. 
>>>
>>> What kind of errors about missing files do you get? 
>>>
>>> Matthias Hörmann 
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Matthias Kauer <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote: 
>>> > Hi, 
>>> > I want to deploy a Haskell web application (gitit) on a small VPS and 
>>> I'm 
>>> > not sure if the task is hard or I am going about it the wrong way. 
>>> > The constraints are: 
>>> > - The server has 512 MB RAM, so compiling there doesn't work. 
>>> > - Docker will most likely not work either. I believe it requires extra 
>>> > config in OpenVZ and most hosters will not have done that. 
>>> > - Locally, I have a VM (Virtualbox) with 4GB RAM and the same 
>>> (similar) 
>>> > Ubuntu 14.04. environment. 
>>> > 
>>> > After compiling with `stack install` and uploading, I cannot execute 
>>> the 
>>> > binary because it complains about files missing that have the absolute 
>>> path 
>>> > from the VM. 
>>> > 
>>> > Is this actually a very difficult task? Or is it rather so mundane 
>>> that 
>>> > people do not talk about it that much? 
>>> > Can you offer some guidance on what I can do to achieve this? 
>>> > 
>>> > Among other things, I have tried what is described here: 
>>> > https://ro-che.info/articles/2015-10-26-static-linking-ghc (building 
>>> with 
>>> > 
>>> > stack build --ghc-options='-optl-static -optl-pthread' --force-dirty) 
>>> > This ends up not linking gitit itself at the very end 
>>> > 
>>> > ```/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbeginT.o: 
>>> relocation 
>>> > R_X86_64_32 against `__TMC_END__' can not be used when making a shared 
>>> > object; recompile with -fPIC``` 
>>> > This might be fixable by installing the right system libraries, but is 
>>> this 
>>> > even a good way to go about this? 
>>> > 
>>> > Best regards, 
>>> > Matthias 
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