GDMD picking up wrong GDC

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Sun May 7 17:39:46 UTC 2023


On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 16:23:31 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 13:41:43 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
>> I have multiple GDCs installed through apt, how do I make gdmd 
>> pick the higher one (`gdc-12`) and not just `gdc`?
>
> With e.g. `ln -s gdmd /usr/bin/gdmd-12`, and then using 
> `gdmd-12`. As shown by the few linked lines in the Perl script, 
> the gdmd script invoked as `[prefix-][g]dmd[-suffix]` invokes a 
> `[prefix-]gdc[-suffix]` in the same directory.

Correct, `sparc-gdmd` invokes `sparc-gdc`; `gdmd-latest` invokes 
`gdc-latest`, and so on and so forth.


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