finding dmd.conf

[Lutger]

I'm having some trouble with dmd.conf. I set up a (soft) symbolic link to 
the dmdxxxx/bin path version I want to use, but dmd can't find dmd.conf:

$> which dmd
/home/lutger/code/bin/dmd/bin/dmd
$> dmd main.d
object.d: module object cannot read file 'object.d'
$> /home/lutger/code/bin/dmd/bin/dmd main.d
$>

Fully specifying the path works, and putting dmd.conf in /etc also works, 
but is less than ideal. This is in bash (Konsole) on OpenSuse 11.1.

Anybody an idea what I am doing wrong?