[Issue 278] New: dmd.conf search path dosn't work

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I do all my switching in /etc/dmd.conf and recently had some weird 
> problems when I tried using Build on Linux.  It turned out that I had an 
> old dmd.conf file in /dmd/bin as well, and removing this fixed things. 
> So I think the checking of /bin/dmd/dmd.conf may not work correctly.  I 
> have /dmd/bin in my path, could it be that the argv[0] doesn't contain a 
> fully qualified path name and so the function ends up looking in the 
> current directory twice?

Easy enough to check, compile/run this program on your system:


> #include        <stdio.h>
> #include        <assert.h>
> #include        <stdlib.h>
> 
> int main(argc,argv)
> int argc;
> char *argv[];
> {       int i;
> 
>         printf("%d arguments\n",argc);
>         for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
>                 printf("arg[%d] = '%s'\n",i,argv[i]);
>         assert(argv[argc] == NULL);
>         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> }