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| author | Dominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com> | 2015-06-14 18:51:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Dominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com> | 2015-06-14 18:51:06 +0100 |
| commit | 2f68b0baf0c7b70c511a9988640ebd946f2408c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ca2550f5347a57fb7767fd17c0f3216e6376f21 | |
| parent | 2782cddb56b2f3b56893915bc227839dc3d246c0 (diff) | |
| download | Nim-2f68b0baf0c7b70c511a9988640ebd946f2408c0.tar.gz | |
Introduce gPrefixDir for nimsuggest.
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/options.nim | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/options.nim b/compiler/options.nim index 48e2db0c7..42a13f8e8 100644 --- a/compiler/options.nim +++ b/compiler/options.nim @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ const var gConfigVars* = newStringTable(modeStyleInsensitive) gDllOverrides = newStringTable(modeCaseInsensitive) + gPrefixDir* = "" # Overrides the default prefix dir in getPrefixDir proc. libpath* = "" gProjectName* = "" # holds a name like 'nimrod' gProjectPath* = "" # holds a path like /home/alice/projects/nimrod/compiler/ @@ -184,8 +185,13 @@ proc getOutFile*(filename, ext: string): string = else: result = changeFileExt(filename, ext) proc getPrefixDir*(): string = - ## gets the application directory - result = splitPath(getAppDir()).head + ## Gets the prefix dir, usually the parent directory where the binary resides. + ## + ## This is overrided by some tools (namely nimsuggest) via the ``gPrefixDir`` + ## global. + if gPrefixDir != "": result = gPrefixDir + else: + result = splitPath(getAppDir()).head proc canonicalizePath*(path: string): string = when not FileSystemCaseSensitive: result = path.expandFilename.toLower |