Output of dmd and dmd.conf location

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/24/2010 04:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I never know the full logic by which dmd.conf is found, it's quite
>> convoluted.
>
>  From dmd compiler source inifile.c:
>
> /* Look for inifile in the following sequence of places:
> * o current directory
> * o home directory
> * o directory off of argv0
> * o /etc/
> */
>
> argv0 is where the dmd binary is.
>
>  From the documentation
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-linux.html#dmd_conf
>
> 1.current working directory
> 2.directory specified by the HOME environment variable
> 3.directory dmd resides in
> 4./etc/

I know. What I meant to say is that I need to go look it up whenever I 
need to figure something out. It would be much simpler to just issue dmd 
-v and see the thing at work in my environment.

Andrei