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reply simendsjo <simen.endsjo pandavre.com> writes:
c:\temp\src\test.d

c:\temp>rdmd src\test
The system cannot find the path specified.

c:\temp>rdmd src/test
std.file.FileException: (...)\.rdmd\rdmd-src/test.d-(...): The system 
cannot find the path specified.

Using rdmd 20090902, dmd 2.048 and 64 bit win7
Aug 14 2010
parent reply "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> writes:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:58:05 +0200, simendsjo wrote:


 c:\temp\src\test.d
 
 c:\temp>rdmd src\test
 The system cannot find the path specified.
 
 c:\temp>rdmd src/test
 std.file.FileException: (...)\.rdmd\rdmd-src/test.d-(...): The system
 cannot find the path specified.
 
 Using rdmd 20090902, dmd 2.048 and 64 bit win7


It doesn't work on Linux either, you have to be in the same directory as 
the source file.  But I'm not sure it was ever supposed to work, i.e. 
Andrei didn't account for that use when he wrote it.  If you really want 
this to work, you could submit an enhancement request to bugzilla.

-Lars
Aug 14 2010
parent "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote in message 
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 On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:58:05 +0200, simendsjo wrote:


 c:\temp\src\test.d

 c:\temp>rdmd src\test
 The system cannot find the path specified.

 c:\temp>rdmd src/test
 std.file.FileException: (...)\.rdmd\rdmd-src/test.d-(...): The system
 cannot find the path specified.

 Using rdmd 20090902, dmd 2.048 and 64 bit win7


 It doesn't work on Linux either, you have to be in the same directory as
 the source file.  But I'm not sure it was ever supposed to work, i.e.
 Andrei didn't account for that use when he wrote it.  If you really want
 this to work, you could submit an enhancement request to bugzilla.


It was already fixed in trunk 10 months ago (r1315: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/log/trunk/tools/rdmd.d ), but never 
got included in the DMD distributions. I nagged about it over on 
"digitalmars.D" recently and Walter has promised the latest RDMD will 
finally be included with the next DMD release.

The version in trunk *does* still have problems if you need to use the 
"-Ipath" switch, but I've submitted a patch that fixes that: 
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4672
Aug 22 2010