diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bd759ee06bd95d8bb69ed3952287159c8f1df6fd..7036d7c0f871c9278b07b58182e3252a3fc9a701 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -155,7 +155,14 @@ binary-dist::
 	@echo "Generating a shippable configure script.."
 	$(MV) $(BIN_DIST_TMPDIR)/$(BIN_DIST_NAME)/configure-bin.in $(BIN_DIST_TMPDIR)/$(BIN_DIST_NAME)/configure.in 
 	( cd $(BIN_DIST_TMPDIR)/$(BIN_DIST_NAME); autoconf )
-	cp $(BIN_DIST_MAIN_DIR)/mk/post-install-script $(BIN_DIST_TMPDIR)/$(BIN_DIST_NAME)
+	if test -x $(BIN_DIST_MAIN_DIR)/mk/post-install-script ; then \
+		cp $(BIN_DIST_MAIN_DIR)/mk/post-install-script \
+			$(BIN_DIST_TMPDIR)/$(BIN_DIST_NAME) ; \
+	fi
+	if test -x $(BIN_DIST_MAIN_DIR)/mk/post-inplace-script ; then \
+		cp $(BIN_DIST_MAIN_DIR)/mk/post-inplace-script \
+			$(BIN_DIST_TMPDIR)/$(BIN_DIST_NAME) ; \
+	fi
 #
 # binary dist'ing the documentation.  
 # Which documentation to build/install is hardcoded below.
diff --git a/distrib/Makefile-bin.in b/distrib/Makefile-bin.in
index 0fd77273033b4e36251207aad75326f47a3c1a41..747a2fd27d001a1b0c5a9e1ef13673efd846c9bb 100644
--- a/distrib/Makefile-bin.in
+++ b/distrib/Makefile-bin.in
@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ CURRENT_DIR = $(shell pwd | sed 's|^//\(.\)|\1:|' )
 
 in-place ::
 	$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) config-pkgs bindir=$(CURRENT_DIR)/bin/$(platform) libdir=$(CURRENT_DIR)/lib/$(platform) datadir=$(CURRENT_DIR)/share
+	if test -x "./post-inplace-script" ; then \
+		echo "Running project-specific post-inplace script ..." ; \
+		./post-inplace-script $(platform) $(CURRENT_DIR) \
+			$(package)-$(version); \
+		echo "Done" ; \
+	fi
 	@echo "Finished configuring..to use, add $(CURRENT_DIR)/bin/$(platform) to your PATH."
 
 install-dirs ::
diff --git a/ghc/mk/post-inplace-script b/ghc/mk/post-inplace-script
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2fae09f4e14067a30dff27032175e0c3da5d8297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ghc/mk/post-inplace-script
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# $1 is $(platform)
+# $2 is root of the unpacked tarfile tree
+# $3 is $(package)-$(version) ie ghc-4.11 
+
+echo POST_INPLACE_SCRIPT $1 $2 $3
+
+bin/$1/pkgconf install "$1" "" "YES" "" "$2/lib/$1" "$2/lib/$1" "$2/lib/$1" "" "$2/lib/$1/include" "" > $2/lib/$1/package.conf