finding a circular dependency

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:14:38 -0400, Rory McGuire <rmcguire at neonova.co.za>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:51:01 +0200, Steven Schveighoffer  
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to get a modified version of std.process to compile  
>> (with Lars K's changes) for windows, and phobos finally compiled.
>>
>> So I built a little test program, compiled it, and I get the following  
>> error message:
>>
>> object.Exception: circular dependency in module std.stdio.
>>
>> Great.  How did that happen?  Being that I didn't write std.stdio, only  
>> modified it slightly (and certainly didn't change any imports), I  
>> haven't the foggiest where this problem is.  Given that the runtime can  
>> prove there is a circular dependency, and apparently knows the names of  
>> the modules, how about showing me the cycle?
>>
>> :P
>>
>> I do not look forward to tracking this one down...
>>
>> -Steve
>
> doesn't -verbose list the modules dmd is importing? Perhaps it stops at  
> the offending module?

It's a runtime issue, not a compiler issue.

-Steve