On Thursday, 27 July 2017 at 18:14:52 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 7/27/17 1:58 PM, FoxyBrown wrote:
On Thursday, 27 July 2017 at 12:23:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 22:29:00 Ali Çehreli via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On 07/26/2017 09:20 PM, FoxyBrown wrote:
>> Somebody else had the same problem which they solved by
removing
>>
>> "entire dmd":
>>
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ejybuwermnentslcy...@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Ali
>
> Thanks, that was it. So I guess I have to delete the
original dmd2 dir
> before I install each time... didn't use to have to do
that.
Normally, it shouldn't be necessary. The splitting of the
datetime package[1] had this effect but I'm not sure why the
installation process can't take care of it.
Ali
[1]
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html#split-std-datetime
It _should_ take care of it. The fact that multiple people
have run into this problem and that the solution was to
remove dmd and then reinstall it implies that there's a bug
in the installer.
- Jonathan M Davis
I do not use the installer, I use the zip file. I assumed that
everything would be overwritten and any old stuff would simply
go unused.. but it seems it doesn't. If the other person used
the installer then it is a problem with dmd itself not
designed properly and using files that it shouldn't. I simply
unzip the zip file in to the dmd2 dir and replace sc.ini...
that has been my MO for since I've been trying out dmd2 and
only recently has it had a problem.
If you extracted the zip file over the original install, then
it didn't get rid of std/datetime.d (as extracting a zipfile
doesn't remove items that exist on the current filesystem but
aren't in the zipfile). So I can totally see this happening.
I don't know of a good way to solve this except to tell people,
don't do that.
-Steve
But the issue was about missing symbols, not anything "extra". If
datatime.d is there but nothing is using it, why should it
matter? Why would it have any effect on the compilation process
and create errors with D telling me something is being used that
isn't?
dmd shouldn't be picking up extraneous and non-connected files
just for the fun of it.
Basically, if no "references" escape out side of the D ecosystem,
then there shouldn't be a problem.
