https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16746
--- Comment #10 from Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net> --- (In reply to Vladimir Panteleev from comment #9) > (In reply to Matthias Klumpp from comment #8) > > Yes, it doesn't support all command-line flags one would use with ldc, gdc > > or dmd. > > rdmd simply forwards flags it doesn't recognize to the compiler. > > > Any wrapper is not an option. > > Why? Because the wrapper is not available everywhere, and going through a wrapper in order to fix a missing thing in dmd is just a workaround. DMD(FE) should be able to do this natively. When adding support to Meson/CMake/Automake/Makefiles, telling users that they need the compiler but also this other tool which - in the Meson world - has the sole purpose of supplying a missing functionality in DMD is pretty cumbersome. It's a workaround, but no real solution to the issue. At the moment, Debian/Uhuntu/Fedora/OpenSUSE and probably a couple of other don't ehip rdmd at all, which makes demanding it just to work around this bug not worthwile anyway. --
