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On 3/9/07, Anant Narayanan <anant@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I'm currently in the process of introducing a bunch of ebuilds |
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> related to the D programming language into the tree. I'll begin with |
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> the binary compiler provided by Digital Mars and then move onto the |
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> GCC based compiler. |
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> 1) The dev-lang/dmd-bin ebuild will be fairly straightforward with |
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> the compiler going into /opt. I'm using an env.d entry to modify the |
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> user's path (much like ghc-bin), but I notice that the naming |
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> convention in /etc/env.d is seemingly random. I can't really think of |
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> what 2 digit prefix would be most appropriate prefix for DMD. |
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The numbers are used to sort the list for env-update IIRC. |
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> 2) The dev-lang/d-gcc ebuild would require more thought. I notice the |
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> following line in toolchain.eclass: |
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> > # support for the D language |
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> > [[ -n ${D_VER} ]] && \ |
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> > GCC_SRC_URI="${GCC_SRC_URI} d? ( mirror://sourceforge/dgcc/ |
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> > gdc-${D_VER}-src.tar.bz2 )" |
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> I'd appreciate it if one of the toolchain ninjas could clarify their |
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> stance on D :) |
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I'm no toolchain ninja, but from the log, it references to bug |
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#159196. Maybe it's worth looking at the bug. |
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> 3) There are quite of a few D applications out there that I'd like to |
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> add support for. Examples are DUI (D bindings to Gtk, leds (an IDE) |
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> and Tango (a general purpose library). However, for this to happend, |
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> we need a virtual for the D compiler. |
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> Thoughts, suggestions, comments and criticisms invited :) |
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Happy D-ing :) |
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Duy |
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