Poll: -od -lib -of and breaking compatibility with build tools

[FeepingCreature]

I ran into this bug a few days ago.

DMD, when specifying -od (output directory), -of (output file) 
and *only* when in -lib mode, treats the output file path as 
relative to the output directory path. Ie. -odfoo -oflibbar.a 
results in foo/libbar.a as opposed to ./libbar.a. This is in 
contradiction to every other mode (-shared, binary output, object 
output) and every other D compiler (ldc, gdc).

This issue was raised four years ago. At the time, Walter said he 
was not fixing it in order to avoid breaking compatibility with 
existing build setups: see https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/4753 
.

People who are using build tools that call dmd: would you rather 
this be fixed, and have to update your code, or leave it in?

(Me, I want it fixed. It's a really annoying trap for all the 
people who are building with dmd but aren't using -od yet, which 
I was among until a few days ago.)