gcc 4.8.1 made it to Debian Sid

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:23:54 +0200
schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net>:

> On 07/10/2013 05:25 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > Getting the real application path is not simple and not portable,
> > but if you really want to do that:
> 
> I found the same links and was wondering about that, but to be honest
> -- I think Iain is right and this kind of stuff is overkill.
> 
> Let gdmd just be a script that invokes the default system gdc (i.e.
> the first in the path).  To do that, we just need to get the PATH
> variable, and we don't even need to care about where gdmd itself is
> located.

Right. And you could always still accept an optional parameter
--use-gdc=/path/gdc and an environment variable GDMD_GDC=/path/gdc.