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GHC_SEARCH_PATH broken

This bug is present in at least ghc 6.8.2 and ghc 6.10.1. According to the documentation:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/packages.html#ghc-package-path

One should be able to specify an environment variable like GHC_PACKAGE_PATH=$HOME/foo: in order to add the file foo to the search path. Instead, the search path is completely replaced--which seems unlikely to be the desired behavior, besides being contrary to the documentation.

This feature works fine, however, in ghc 6.6.1.

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Version 6.10.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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