How does the compiler look for the files of imports?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Jakob" <a at b.com> wrote in message news:fcr3a2$2g3j$1 at digitalmars.com...

> Well, i'm writing a tool which creates makefiles.
>
> And if the compiler would analyze the module name to get the module root, 
> it would be much simpler for me :P

How on earth is it supposed to do that?  Scan every directory in the system 
looking for a sequence of directory names that match the package name of the 
module?  What if the module has no package names?  What exactly is "the 
module root"?

> Besides, the compiler would not read wrong files as in Kirk's example.

That's entirely not the compiler's fault.  You can't say "import foo, but 
not the foo that looks blindingly obvious, I mean the foo that's in some 
other arbitrary directory on my system.  Yeah, that one.  You know what I'm 
talking about."