D seems interesting, but...

Gerry Weaver gerryw at compvia.com
Sun Oct 14 23:36:22 PDT 2012


On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 06:20:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 10/14/2012 11:09 PM, Gerry Weaver wrote:
>
> > I was wondering why D doesn't just install everthing in one
> directory
> > (ie; /opt/dlang)
>
> The .zip version works that way. (At least it used to.) Just 
> unzip in any directory:
>
>   http://dlang.org/download.html
>
> > and look at an environment variable (ie; DLANG_ROOT) to
> > source everything.
>
> You don't even need to do that. The binary detects where it is 
> started from and finds the modules and libraries relative to 
> its path.
>
> Ali

Hi,

I removed the dmd package and downloaded the .zip. I checked for 
any files that were left behind when the package was removed and 
they are gone. I then ran dmd from the zip package, but I get the 
same result. It would seem that dmd does not work on this 
particular distribution.

Thanks,
-G

Thanks,
-G


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