[WiP] Creating a snap package of LDC

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 at 23:16:04 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> LDC will still go through the usual path lookup routines for 
> the argument in order to deal with PATH lookup (see 
> gen/programs.cpp). In what might be regarded as a bit of a 
> quirk, as a result the -gcc argument and CC global are 
> effectively just ignored silently if they cannot be resolved 
> successfully.
>
> Are you sure the binary specified is executable, on the PATH, 
> and so on?

Just to confirm: will the %%ldcbinarypath%% wildcard be respected 
when passed to the `-gcc` flag?  As in e.g.

     -gcc=%%ldcbinarypath%%/../usr/bin/gcc

... ?