Obtain binary path

[vchuravy]

Often enough I am in a situation where I need to run the underlying binary in order for a profiler or debugger to work more reliable.

It would be great to have something like juliaup path 1.12 to obtain the path of the binary.

Currently I do a log of julia -e "@show Base.julia_cmd()" which is a bit clunky.

[davidanthoff]

We have one officially supported API that might help: juliaup api getconfig1.

[vchuravy]

vchuravy@odin ~> juliaup api --help
Usage: juliaup api <COMMAND>

Arguments:
  <COMMAND>  

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

Ideally it would be something like juliaup api pathof +1.11 and juliaup api pathof respecting default and the environment variable.

[topolarity]

Not necessarily a full fix for the issue, but I opt-in to channelsymlinks for this reason and find julia-1.12 works much better w/ debuggers than, e.g., julia +1.12

[davidanthoff]

Ha, what I mean by official is that we won't break it :) It isn't meant for end-users (which is why it doesn't show up in the help), but it is used by the VS Code extension already.

I do think you should be able to extract all the info you are interested via the getconfig1 command, right?