Not sure this is common knowledge, as am still getting questions
/ propositions off people for this. Through collaboration of the
gcc maintainers at Debian/Ubuntu, gdc has been merged in with the
gcc source package, and is available for all architectures
supported by Debian (albeit, with the majority shipping without a
library).
You can view binary packages here:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/gdc-4.8
And for those interested, can track testsuite/unittester
pass/failures at this link (Click on the "installed", link, and
do a search for "gdc tests")
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-4.8
I think a thanks to Matthias and Peter are in order for their
efforts for this. :)
Obviously we will need to port at least druntime to these
architectures that don't currently ship the D standard libraries
to allow people to start using, and testing D on their favourite
non-x86 architecture.
Should be getting access to Debian port boxes pretty soon, but if
anyone has any hardware running Debian, any donations or ssh
access would be gladly appreciated. It would be good to get this
done by the end of the year.
Lastly, if anyone has ties with other distributions, it would be
great to see if you can get talking with other distributions - in
particular, fedora/centos - to see if we can get them to follow
suit.
As always, the agenda is lets show the world that D2 is both
portable in implementation, and rox on their hardware. :o)
Regards
Iain.
