gcc 4.8.1 made it to Debian Sid

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 10 03:28:13 PDT 2013


On 10 July 2013 11:24, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 02:07 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Comments / flames / pull requests welcome. ;-)
>
>     string findGDC(string argv0)
>     {
>         // FIXME: this does not work 100% of the time.
>         auto c = match(baseName(argv0), `^(.*-)?g?dmd(-.*)?$`).captures;
>         auto targetPrefix = c[1];
>         auto gdcDir = absolutePath(dirName(argv0));
>         return buildNormalizedPath(gdcDir, targetPrefix ~ "gdc" ~ c[2]);
>     }
>
> The "obvious" solution is to have a gdmd.conf file which specifies what gdc
> executable to use and where to find it.  This should get round problems such as
> gdc being installed in /opt/gdc/bin and gdmd being in /usr/local/bin.
>

Search all bin locations in $PATH for ./gdc - I'd imagine this is how
Perl's FindBin works...


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Iain Buclaw

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