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The GHC 5.0 documentation (section 4.9.2) claims that
-i<dirs> `prepends a colon-separated list of dirs to
the "import directories" list', but it doesn't mention
that the <dirs> list is reversed before prepending. 
So, for instance, if I specify

	-I.:SomeDir

then SomeDir is searched before the cwd is, which
matters when they contain files with the same name.  I
found this a bit counterintuitive.  The attached
tarball gives an example.

System info (uname -a):

Linux sandcastle 2.4.2 #1 Sat Mar 17 11:15:33 EST 2001
i686 unknown

ghc identifies itself as:

Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 5.00, for Haskell 98,
compiled by GHC version 5.00
Using package config file:
/usr/lib/ghc-5.00/package.conf
Hsc static flags: -static -fignore-interface-pragmas
-fomit-interface-pragmas -fdo-lambda-eta-expansion
-flet-no-escape
ghc-5.00: no input files
Usage: For basic information, try the `--help' option.

(ghc came from the Debian/unstable ghc5 package)

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Trac field	Value
Version	5.0
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	ResolvedFixed
Component	Driver
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