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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 4095] New: compiling with -op -od and using absolute paths for source files make dmd write object files anywhere

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           Summary: compiling with -op -od and using absolute paths for
                    source files make dmd write object files anywhere
           Product: D
           Version: 1.057
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: nfxjfg gmail.com



When passing absolute paths to dmd, compiling with -op and -od will make dmd
write the object file into the same directory as the source file. But it really
should write somewhere inside the directory passed by -od.

Demonstration:
cd /tmp/x/
dmd -op -od/tmp/x/ /tmp/test/foo.d




This makes -op and -od utterly useless for build scripts or any other advanced
use. Actually, it makes dmd look like dirtying include directories, and you
have to manually clean up them.

What is the point of -od, when dmd decides to write the object files somewhere
else anyway? It doesn't make any sense, thus it must be a bug.

Note that build scripts can not use -od without -op: modules with same name
(but different packages) will map to the same filename. E.g. modules a.foo and
b.foo will both map to foo.o, and dmd will simply overwrite one of these files,
leading to missing symbols in the linker stage.

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Note that ldc supports the -oq switch, which is much more friendlier to build
scripts. Bug 3541 has a patch to enhance dmd with -oq. In combination with
-deps, -oq uses object filenames that can be easily known by build script,
instead of having to emulate dmd's path handling to find out the final object
filename.

E.g. in the example above, where should foo.o really be written? The
filename/path must not clash with other modules named "foo", and using the
package name seems the simplest solution. Which is exactly what -oq does.

Further note that the only properly working build tool for D, xfbuild, uses
incredible kludges to work this around. When there are modules with the same
name/different packages, it does several compile runs to avoid dmd overwriting
the object files it just created in the same run.

I hope this is motivation enough to solve this problem "upstream".

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I have to add that this doesn't really only apply to absolute paths. Relative
paths to source files exhibit similarly messed up behavior, but I'm not really
sure why or what it actually does or is supposed to do. It's something for a
separate bug report.

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As of dmd 1.065, the behaviour seems to be slightly different. Anyway, it still
doesn't work. dmd keeps overwriting its own object files if there are modules
with same name from different packages.

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 dmd keeps overwriting its own object files if there are modules
 with same name from different packages.


Scratch that, up on closer inspection, the problem is exactly the same as
described in the initial comment.

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nfxjfg gmail.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
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         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |


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Manu <turkeyman gmail.com> changed:

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This is still a problem...
VisualD makes use of this extensively, which causes lots of problems.
Plz can haz fix? :)

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15:13:50 PDT ---


 Note that ldc supports the -oq switch, which is much more friendlier to build
 scripts. Bug 3541 has a patch to enhance dmd with -oq.


It also has a pull, but it needs more votes:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1871

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15:14:41 PDT ---
Btw why is this tagged as only D1, doesn't it affect D2 as well?

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Manu <turkeyman gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Platform|Other                       |All
            Version|1.057                       |D1 & D2
         OS/Version|Linux                       |All



I guess it's just ancient ;)

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