Re: gcc 4.8.1 made it to Debian Sid

[Iain Buclaw]

On 10 July 2013 13:14, eles <e...@eles.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 12:03:06 UTC, eles wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 10:24:17 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/10/2013 02:07 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Comments / flames / pull requests welcome. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>    string findGDC(string argv0)
>>>    {
>>>        // FIXME: this does not work 100% of the time.
>>>        auto c = match(baseName(argv0), `^(.*-)?g?dmd(-.*)?$`).captures;
>>>        auto targetPrefix = c[1];
>>>        auto gdcDir = absolutePath(dirName(argv0));
>>>        return buildNormalizedPath(gdcDir, targetPrefix ~ "gdc" ~ c[2]);
>>>    }
>
>
> Quick and unportable (Linux-only) drop-in replacement:
>

Christ on a bike.  What's wrong with:

import std.file;
import std.process : environment;

auto binpaths = environment.get("PATH");

foreach (path; binpaths.split(<delimiter>)
{
    auto exe = path ~ <dirsep> ~ "gdc";
    if (exists (exe)) {
      // found
    }
}


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Iain Buclaw

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