March 24, 2010
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:40:51 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 03/24/2010 04:35 PM, Moritz Warning wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:06:02 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/24/2010 02:11 PM, Moritz Warning wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:55:12 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>> [..]
>>>
>>> Absolutely. I never know the full logic by which dmd.conf is found, it's quite convoluted. You may want to submit a bugzilla enhancement request. I don't think the dmd binary is essential, after all you launched it so you can do a which dmd or whatever.
>> I wouldn't know how to do that on Windows. Linux beginners might have the problem on Linux. - That one additional line wouldn't hurt.
>>
>>> But the name of the module being compiled would help.
>> I am not sure what you mean.
>> Do you mean "dmd -v" should write out the module name that is compiled
>> at that moment? Sounds good.
> 
> Yes. If there's a module declaration output that, otherwise output the module name as inferred from the file name.
> 
> Andrei

I would suggest to put it in a separate ticket.
Cupcakes are easier to sell than cake. :>
March 24, 2010
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:34:05 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Moritz Warning wrote:
>> Smth. like this would be helpful.
> 
> I like it. It's a good idea.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4002
March 25, 2010
On 2010-03-24 17:42:49 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> said:

> argv0 is where the dmd binary is.

Not if you are calling dmd from a symbolic link; in this case, it'll be where the symbolic link is. That's why the D for Xcode installer puts a trampoline program to call dmd in /usr/local/bin/ instead of a symbolic link. The trampoline can adjust argv0 correctly.

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