Current RDMD, please?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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>>>
>>> I saw the q, and was still mulling for an answer. I the join 
>>> intentionally, and now I think I remembered why.
>>>
>>> The join is needed in the probably rare case when you're running rdmd 
>>> from a different directory from the root module, e.g:
>>>
>>> $ pwd
>>> ~/foo/bar
>>> $ rdmd ../baz/main.d
>>>
>>> In this case, if there's no join with the rootDir, modules will be 
>>> looked up in ~/foo/bar/, which is probably not the right thing.
>>>
>>> What is your use case?
>>>
>>
>> That's what I was starting to suspect.
>>
>> My case (writing this from memory, if this doesn't behave like I 
>> describe, then it's something along these lines):
>>
>> $ cat src/app/main.d
>> module app.main;
>> import foo;
>> void main(){}
>>
>> $ cat src/lib/foo.d
>> module lib.foo;
>>
>> $ xfbuild -Isrc src/app/main.d
>> Works ok
>>
>> $ rdmd -Isrc src/app/main.d
>> dmd craps out because rdmd told it to compile "src/app/src/lib/foo.d"
>>
>
> Maybe if you just implicitly add "-I{rootDir}" to the args sent to dmd 
> instead of prepending rootDir? Ideally, you would also want to tell DMD to 
> *not* to lookup modules in the current directory (unless rootDir == 
> current directory), although I don't think DMD has an option for that 
> right now.
>

I've submitted a modified rdmd.d that does exactly that:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4672

I've verified that this works for both my use-case (ie, when "-I" is needed) 
AND for your example (ie, making sure that modules which are relative to the 
main file are looked up correctly regardless of what directory rdmd is run 
from).