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

[Bruno Medeiros]

BCS wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I was being lazy and trying to avoid starting my Linux VM :-)  But I 
>>> just wrote an app like the above, compiled it as "app", moved the 
>>> executable to /dmd/bin, and ran it.  As suspected, argv[0] was "app" 
>>> and not "/dmd/bin/app" as the DMD front-end seems to expect.  I also 
>>> couldn't find a built-in way to determine the location of the 
>>> executing process, so it may be that DMD will have to iterate across 
>>> the PATH list as Build does.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean
>>
>>
>> When argv[0] isn't an absolute path, then isn't the location of the 
>> executing process file =  CWD ~ argv[0] ?
>>
> 
> You will also have to search the path to find it. argv[0] seems to be 
> whatever you used to call the program put something on the path and run 
> it without a full path you will get the name you typed in
> 
> 
> <code name="test.d">
> import std.stdio;
> void main(char[][] argv){foreach(i,a;argv)writef("%d:>\"%s\"\n",i,a);}
> </code>
> 
> // put in path at /bin/foo/
> $test
> 0:>"test"
> 
> // call directly
> $/bin/foo/test
> 0:>"/bin/foo/test"
> 
> // call locally
> $./test
> 0:>"./test"
> 
> Seems to be a direct mapping to whater exec was given.

Agh, of course, that was silly of me. :Z

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