On 2017-06-04 19:05, Patrick Schluter wrote:
buildPath("/usr/bin", "/usr/bin/gcc")
/usr/bin/usr/bin/gcc is obviously wrong.
Says who? It might be exactly what I want. The case that came up is
inside DStep. The user provides a set of files C header to be translated
to D modules. The user also provides a flag to indicate where to place
the resulting files. I wanted to be able to keep the existing directory
structure of the header files in the new target location. Example:
dstep -o result /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/*.h
The internals of DStep will do something like:
buildPath("result", "/usr/include/libxml2/libxml");
Which currently results in "/usr/include/libxml2/libxml". The end result
is that DStep will try to write a file to "/usr/include/libxml2/libxml",
which the user most likely will not have access to (without using sudo).
I expected the result of buildPath to be
"result/usr/include/libxml2/libxml".
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/Jacob Carlborg