• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (30/31) Nov 20 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13758

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13758

          Issue ID: 13758
           Summary: RDMD renames directory if -ofNAME is the name of a
                    directory
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: tools
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com

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~/somedir $ mkdir foo
~/somedir $ echo asdf > foo/bar
~/somedir $ ls foo
 bar

~/somedir $ echo "void main() { }" > app.d
~/somedir $ rdmd -offoo app.d
~/somedir $ ls
app.d  foo  foo.635520880476161823-23425.old
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The "foo.hash.old" is the old folder which was renamed to make place for the
'foo' executable.

I don't think RDMD should have the power to move things around like that. It
should fail compilation if the output name would overwrite the directory, with
optionally providing a special switch for when you really need this behavior (I
don't see the point of the feature though..).

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