On Dec 2, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 12/2/2011 11:50 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: >> On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Brad Roberts wrote: >> >>> For a while I got a lot of grief for the dmd test suite defaulting to >>> looking for the dmd binary in ../src/. It's been >>> overridable for a long time with: make DMD=/path/to/dmd. But just make >>> DMD=dmd hasn't worked ever (unless the dmd >>> binary was in the test directory, which I doubt anyone does). >>> >>> I've been meaning to fix the DMD=dmd case for a long time. While doing >>> that, if there's a sufficiently large population >>> that would rather make DMD=dmd be the default behavior rather than ../src, >>> I'll go ahead and do that. I'll change my >>> habits and scripts to cope. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> I think the current behavior is inconvenient, but is also the correct setup. >> We wouldn't want the tester to use DMD from the user's path by default. >> That should be an explicit override. It's simple enough to make this an >> alias or whatever anyway if the typing is annoying. >> > > I often use makefiles that exist solely to override explicit paths in another > makefile that it forwards the commands to. I find that more convenient than > resetting global paths.
I meant more: export alias my-dtest='make DMD=/path/to/my/dmd' _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
