On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 10:18 +0000, Richard Delorme via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: […] > The main problem is that ldc, dmd and gdc cannot share the same > runtime library yet. So the three compilers do not cohabit well > in a system wide environment. The manual installation puts each > compiler in their own /opt/<compiler> or /usr/local/<compiler> > directory with a lot of stuffs duplicated (gdc come with its own > gcc compiler, etc.). I do not known how Debian or ArchLinux deal > with that, but I guess Fedora maintainers judge this situation > unsustainable. The choice of ldc is probably the best one, to > gather both a recent druntime and a compiler producing fast > executable.
Sadly, on Debian, the gdc packaging and the ldc packaging conflict over the search path for module sources and so gdc will not work if ldc is installed. This turns out to be a real ####### pain for the SCons tests. The problem for Fedora is that there are no maintainers taking responsibility for D stuff other than ldc. Like Debian and Arch, Fedora relies on people volunteering and keeping going with packaging. ldc is packaged by all, which is good. Sadly no dub. […] > Yes, that may be a good thing. > Another one would be to detach the development of phobos from > dmd, and that the developer of phobos take care not to break the > compatibility of the library with other compilers. I thought DMD and Phobos were separate. Given proper versioning (which I think we have) there should be no problem. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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