The dmd.conf rant

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/01/2015 04:54 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> 
> I don't understand this part. -conf= should essentially remove all
> notion of .conf files whatsoever.

That's only half of the story, because without a config dmd doesn't know
where to find druntime/phobos or how to link a binary.
You really want one dmd.conf for each installed compiler/druntime/phobos
triplet.

To have something that works independent of the environment I have to
use this on my Fedora installation.

dmd -conf=/etc/dmd.conf
# library dir not needed because libphobos2.a is in /usr/lib64
dmd -conf= -I/usr/include/dmd/druntime/import/
-I/usr/include/dmd/phobos/ -L--export-dynamic

If I wanted to use my dmd-master I'd have to use one of these.

/home/dawg/Code/D/DPL/dmd/src/dmd
-conf=/home/dawg/Code/D/DPL/dmd/src/dmd.conf

/home/dawg/Code/D/DPL/dmd/src/dmd -conf=
-I/home/dawg/Code/D/DPL/druntime/import/ -I/home/dawg/Code/D/DPL/phobos
-L-L/home/dawg/Code/D/DPL/phobos/generated/linux/release/64/
-L--export-dynamic