On 2 February 2015 at 17:44, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> My attitude to any such changes in general is "I don't care as long as I can easily override it with own patches before packaging gdc".
>
> In practice distro are simply too different to try fitting everything into single pattern. In Arch Linux it is prohibited to package source-only libraries and thus dub is pretty much a necessity. At the same time being a bleeding edge distro it doesn't care for simultaneous support of many compiler versions at once and all that infrastructure can be dropped to keep things KISS.
>
> So, please, whatever you do, keep it easy for packager to override all paths :)

It's now a one-line change to stick it where-ever you want. Couldn't be easier. :)

Iain.

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:49:07 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> So, please, whatever you do, keep it easy for packager to override all paths
>> :)
>
> It's now a one-line change to stick it where-ever you want. Couldn't
> be easier. :)
>
> Iain.

Yay, thanks! ^_^

On 2 February 2015 at 17:52, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:49:07 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>
>>> So, please, whatever you do, keep it easy for packager to override all
>>> paths
>>> :)
>>
>>
>> It's now a one-line change to stick it where-ever you want. Couldn't be easier. :)
>>
>> Iain.
>
>
> Yay, thanks! ^_^

Correction, two line change.  I momentarily forgot about the compiler Make-lang.in  :)

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:59:43 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Correction, two line change.  I momentarily forgot about the compiler
> Make-lang.in  :)

Will those be roughly the same lines as I tweak in https://github.com/Dicebot/Arch-PKGBUILDs/blob/master/gdc/folders.diff right now?

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:44:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> In Arch Linux it is prohibited to package source-only libraries

How do they handle boost?

On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 11:51:31 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:44:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> In Arch Linux it is prohibited to package source-only libraries
>
> How do they handle boost?

Boost does provide prebuild static libraries, despite being
template-heavy - thus it still fits allowed "library + bindings"
model. It is not very suitable for D though.

On a related topic, @Iain, does using static libraries still
prevent inlining in gdc?

On 2015-02-01 19:58, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Next list of things that need sorting out™ in GDC is how the compiler
> works out where module interfaces are installed vs. where the library
> actually installed them - this is tricky when taking into
> consideration:

I don't know if this matters but eventually I would like to add support for GDC in DVM. Installing multiple versions of DMD in any directory I want is very easy since DMD has a self contained zip and dmd.conf.

Placing files all over the system sounds like it will make adding support in DVM harder.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:46:55 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> On 2015-02-01 19:58, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Next list of things that need sorting outâ„¢ in GDC is how the compiler
>> works out where module interfaces are installed vs. where the library
>> actually installed them - this is tricky when taking into
>> consideration:
> 
> I don't know if this matters but eventually I would like to add support for GDC in DVM. Installing multiple versions of DMD in any directory I want is very easy since DMD has a self contained zip and dmd.conf.
> 
> Placing files all over the system sounds like it will make adding support in DVM harder.

adding support for "-nostdinc" and "-isystem" to gdc should allow replacing pathes. or maybe it already supports that, i don't know...