Compiler says it does something that it does not do

Gregor Richards Richards at codu.org
Mon Mar 3 11:14:23 PST 2008


Ty Tower wrote:
> Now I will just approach this vewy vewy quietly so no one misunderstands..........
> 
> On a Linux machine as user tytower I issue a build command as below . Because I am logged in as user, not root I cannot write to  /usr  so the compiler says I will write to  /home/tytower/d  instead. It does not in fact do this as no directory /home/tytower/d exists or is created ,Even if I create this directory it is not used. It actually write to the current directory which in this case is the same as the directory the program is in.
> 
> [tytower at linuxbox MyStuff]$ dsss build -D maintry.d
> Default prefix /usr is unwritable, using /home/tytower/d instead.
> 
> Now what I am suggesting is that the message out from the compiler is ....wait for it ...wrong. Not that it worries me or there is more I don't understand , but merely to tell someone there that this exits and is ....wrong.

This is not a bug. You didn't install anything, so it didn't actually 
need to use the prefix.

  - Gregor Richards



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