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.
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