On 30 Aug 2014 17:47, "Russel Winder" <russel@winder.org.uk> wrote:
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> Iain,
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> gdmd was in gdc-4.6 but as far as I can tell it is not in gdc-4.9.1. Is gdmd an ex-thing? In a sense I hope so as it required the environment variable $HOME to be set and this is a problem for SCons testing. Basically we have failing tests on gdc-4.6 based machines but not on gdc-4.9.1 based ones and I need to find out whether to fix the tests or remove gdmd from the SCons toolkit.
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> An early answer would be very much appreciated, as there is pressure to get this fixed this weekend.
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> --
> Russel.

Yes, gdmd is no longer integrated.  Is now an external tool.

Iain.

Iain,

On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 18:07 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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> Yes, gdmd is no longer integrated.  Is now an external tool.

Thanks muchly for the very rapid answer.

OK so gdmd gone from gdc, but I don't see a gdmd package in Debian.  Is gdmd not packaged but just a downloadable thing?

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:47:47 +0100
Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> Is gdmd an ex-thing?
it is now in it's own repository: https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDMD.git

On 30 Aug 2014 18:11, "Russel Winder" <russel@winder.org.uk> wrote:
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> Iain,
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> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 18:07 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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> >
> > Yes, gdmd is no longer integrated.  Is now an external tool.
>
> Thanks muchly for the very rapid answer.
>
> OK so gdmd gone from gdc, but I don't see a gdmd package in Debian.  Is gdmd not packaged but just a downloadable thing?

It's hosted on github under the gdc project.  Probably a bit outdated though.   I had hoped that someone would rewrite it in D, and a start was made, but never completed (I never saw a PR).

In any case, dub's existence means there's not much motivation.

Iain.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:20:42 +0100
Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> I had hoped that someone would rewrite it in D, and a start was made, but never completed (I never saw a PR).
funny thing is that i made the exact opposite: wrote "kdmd" which translates dmd args to gdc args.

and forked rdmd, then converted it to rgdc and made rgdc use my "-fwrite-pragma-libs=" patch.

maybe i should write "gdmd" too, just for completeness sake. ;-)

On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 20:48 +0300, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote: […]
> maybe i should write "gdmd" too, just for completeness sake. ;-)

Two alternatives I think:

1. Rewrite it in something other than Perl, D or Python mayhap. 2. Let it pass away into history.

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On 30 Aug 2014 18:49, "ketmar via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:20:42 +0100
> Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> > I had hoped that someone would rewrite it in D, and a start was made, but never completed (I never saw a PR).
> funny thing is that i made the exact opposite: wrote "kdmd" which translates dmd args to gdc args.
>

That isn't the opposite. That's what gdmd does.  Unless you mean translate gdc args to dmd.  :)

Iain.

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:20:04 +0100
Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> That isn't the opposite. That's what gdmd does.  Unless you mean translate gdc args to dmd.  :)
sorry, i must sleep more. ;-)
sure, gdc->dmd conversion, to build my projects with dmd (i'm not using
dub and too lazy to add compiler selection to my build system).

here is rgdc, for example: http://repo.or.cz/w/rgdc.git
it can be built w/o '-fwrite-pragma-libs=' support and it needs .rc
file, but it works.

ah, and it can't be built with current GDC, 'cause i'm using MonoTime which appears in 2.066. ;-) i ported it back to GDC, but never bother to publish patch, 'cause it will be obsoleted when GDC moves to 2.066 anyway.

On 30/08/14 21:34, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 20:48 +0300, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>> maybe i should write "gdmd" too, just for completeness sake. ;-)
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> Two alternatives I think:
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> 1. Rewrite it in something other than Perl, D or Python mayhap.
> 2. Let it pass away into history.

FWIW I've continued using the perl script with no apparent problems.  Though my dmd-esque flags don't get very adventurous, so perhaps I'm just not bumping into problems that might exist ;-)