gcc 4.8.1 made it to Debian Sid

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 07/10/2013 12:28 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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...

In this case you need to take account of the possibility of multiple gdc/gdmd
versions being installed in different places.  So, ideally, a given install of
gdmd should be wedded to a given gdc.