[GHC] #2829: GHC_SEARCH_PATH broken

[GHC]

#2829: GHC_SEARCH_PATH broken
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Reporter:  droundy           |          Owner:                  
    Type:  bug               |         Status:  new             
Priority:  normal            |      Component:  Compiler        
 Version:  6.10.1            |       Severity:  normal          
Keywords:                    |       Testcase:                  
      Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
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 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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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2829>
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