Specify an entire directory tree for string imports

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 30/03/2015 3:51 p.m., Baz wrote:
> On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 02:13:22 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
>> I have a directory structure like this:
>>
>>     .
>>     |   test.d
>>     |
>>     \---test
>>         |   test1.txt
>>         |
>>         \---subfolder
>>                 test2.txt
>>
>> I am running test.d using this command:
>>
>>     rdmd -Jtest test.d
>>
>> I can do `import("test1.txt")` from test.d successfully, however,
>> `import("subfolder/test2.txt")` fails with the error `file
>> "subfolder/test2.txt" cannot be found or not in a path specified with -J`
>>
>> I'm guessing that the -J option doesn't operate recursively, and that
>> I'm not allowed to import files from `test/subfolder`.
>>
>> Is there a way to make the entire `test` directory tree available for
>> string imports?
>
> It's a DMD Windows bug. It's just been reported 2 days ago:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14349
>
> so nothing wrong from you side.

Well this is awkward, I knew about this 2 major releases ago and just 
assumed it was already reported. Or some artificial limitation.

Well this brings me back down to earth after fixing a bug that was just 
reported via another bug fix that I PR'd 2 major releases ago (not 
pulled yet).