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'


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