Is anybody out there working on this?  I don't mean the alien-generated .deb package, but an "official" debian package to be integrated into the distribution.

I went to the debian site and found out that the gdc package is in the pipeline--the owner is Suresh Rajashekara (suresh.raj at gmail dot com).

I pinged him and he said that he is just starting work on it but thinks to have it ready "very soon".

However, if someone else is already working on it, could you please reply or e-mail Suresh and/or me?  Just to avoid duplication of effort.

Thanks!

robspassky wrote:

> Is anybody out there working on this?  I don't mean the alien-generated .deb package, but an "official" debian package to be integrated into the distribution.
> 
> I went to the debian site and found out that the gdc package is in the pipeline--the owner is Suresh Rajashekara (suresh.raj at gmail dot com).
> 
> I pinged him and he said that he is just starting work on it but thinks to have it ready "very soon".

I thought about integrating GDC into Ubuntu's, the same way GPC is now ?
But I was kinda put off by the sheer size of the package and scripts...
Same went for making it interact with the Fedora system GCC compiler,
which has like a ton of patches. So for now I only made "vanilla" GDC.

But if anyone wants to take it through the official channels, that would
be cool. Should be easier now, when it supports GCC 4.1.1 and x86_64 ?

--anders

I was actually in the process of taking a stab at it myself, but the effort involved to "Do It Officially" was daunting.  I'm glad someone else (who is already a debian developer) is taking it on.  :-)

Yes, I think the key obstacle earlier was the lack of support for GCC 4+ and the new intermediate representation it introduced, so hopefully the process will now be more straightforward.

Rob

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> robspassky wrote:
> 
>> Is anybody out there working on this?  I don't mean the alien-generated .deb package, but an "official" debian package to be integrated into the distribution.
>>
>> I went to the debian site and found out that the gdc package is in the pipeline--the owner is Suresh Rajashekara (suresh.raj at gmail dot com).
>>
>> I pinged him and he said that he is just starting work on it but thinks to have it ready "very soon".
> 
> I thought about integrating GDC into Ubuntu's, the same way GPC is now ?
> But I was kinda put off by the sheer size of the package and scripts...
> Same went for making it interact with the Fedora system GCC compiler,
> which has like a ton of patches. So for now I only made "vanilla" GDC.
> 
> But if anyone wants to take it through the official channels, that would
> be cool. Should be easier now, when it supports GCC 4.1.1 and x86_64 ?
> 
> --anders

Op Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:47:57 +0200
schreef Anders F Björklund <afb@algonet.se>:

> robspassky wrote:
> 
> > Is anybody out there working on this?  I don't mean the alien-generated .deb package, but an "official" debian package to be integrated into the distribution.
> > 
> > I went to the debian site and found out that the gdc package is in the pipeline--the owner is Suresh Rajashekara (suresh.raj at gmail dot com).
> > 
> > I pinged him and he said that he is just starting work on it but thinks to have it ready "very soon".
> 
> I thought about integrating GDC into Ubuntu's, the same way GPC is now ? But I was kinda put off by the sheer size of the package and scripts... Same went for making it interact with the Fedora system GCC compiler, which has like a ton of patches. So for now I only made "vanilla" GDC.
> 
> But if anyone wants to take it through the official channels, that would be cool. Should be easier now, when it supports GCC 4.1.1 and x86_64 ?

There is an Ubuntu wishlist bug for GDC here: <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/87337>

Someone called "Arthur Loiret" assigned this bug to himself, so he should be working on it too.

I also linked it to an "upstream" Debian bug report some time ago. Is there another Debian bug report or where did you find information about Suresh Rajashekara working on it?


-- 
Jan Claeys

I found the information on debian's Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/), which eventually led here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403460

There are two older bugs, 312367 and 317983, but there's no link from 403460 to those.

I'll ping Arthur and see what kind of progress he's made.

Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:47:57 +0200
> 
> There is an Ubuntu wishlist bug for GDC here:
> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/87337>
> 
> Someone called "Arthur Loiret" assigned this bug to himself, so he
> should be working on it too.
> 
> I also linked it to an "upstream" Debian bug report some time ago.
> Is there another Debian bug report or where did you find information
> about Suresh Rajashekara working on it?
> 
> 

Op Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:40:38 -0400
schreef robspassky <robspassky@aol.com>:

> I found the information on debian's Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/), which eventually led here:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403460
> 
> There are two older bugs, 312367 and 317983, but there's no link from 403460 to those.
> 
> I'll ping Arthur and see what kind of progress he's made.

Thanks.  I updated the Ubuntu bug report on launchpad to refer to bug #403460 in Debian which seems to be more useful for now.


-- 
Jan Claeys

Hi :)

I had a mail exchange with Suresh 2 weeks ago, and he told me that infortunatlly with the busy schedule he has he won't be able to start the package soon. So i've started to work on it, and I'm mentored by an ubuntu-core-dev.

Even if I had already done a full source-separated package of gdc, independent of gcc, it seems to be a better idea to make a source-dependant of the gdc source package, which would implies to have the latest patches up-to-date and avoid binary name problem. Then the gcc source tarball have to be patched first ("sample" patch ready, about 1400 lines).

I'll keep you in touch about my progress about this package, but I'm also going to be very busy next month (end-of-year exams), but will have lots of free time after ;)

Have a nice day, Arthur.

Arthur Loiret wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> I had a mail exchange with Suresh 2 weeks ago, and he told me that infortunatlly with the busy schedule he has he won't be able to start the package soon. So i've started to work on it, and I'm mentored by an ubuntu-core-dev.
> 
> Even if I had already done a full source-separated package of gdc, independent of gcc, it seems to be a better idea to make a source-dependant of the gdc source package, which would implies to have the latest patches up-to-date and avoid binary name problem. Then the gcc source tarball have to be patched first ("sample" patch ready, about 1400 lines).
> 
> I'll keep you in touch about my progress about this package, but I'm also going to be very busy next month (end-of-year exams), but will have lots of free time after ;)
> 
> Have a nice day, Arthur.

Thanks for the update, Arthur!  I was wondering what was happening.

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> robspassky wrote:
> 
>> Is anybody out there working on this?  I don't mean the alien-generated .deb package, but an "official" debian package to be integrated into the distribution.
>> 
>> I went to the debian site and found out that the gdc package is in the pipeline--the owner is Suresh Rajashekara (suresh.raj at gmail dot com).
>> 
>> I pinged him and he said that he is just starting work on it but thinks to have it ready "very soon".
> 
> I thought about integrating GDC into Ubuntu's, the same way GPC is now ? But I was kinda put off by the sheer size of the package and scripts... Same went for making it interact with the Fedora system GCC compiler, which has like a ton of patches. So for now I only made "vanilla" GDC.
> 
> But if anyone wants to take it through the official channels, that would be cool. Should be easier now, when it supports GCC 4.1.1 and x86_64 ?
> 
> --anders
I have twiddled with the feisty GCC deb-src to create GDC as part of it,
took me ages to figure out how the damn thing works but seems to have done
the trick, compiles on x86_64 as well. I can't compile tango (on x86_64)
with it but that's another matter I am sure you guys know about.
My "twiddling" isn't perfect, I had to comment out some if's which I am
sure had some sort of use and it only compiles phobos for the arch your
compiling for (so when building for x86_64 it doesn't build phobos for x86
as well) although I think the compiler can still compile x86 code if you
can get your hands on a x86 phobos. Also phobos is bundled with the gdc
compiler in the same deb, I had enough of playing with the files and just
wanted to get learning D lol. :-)

Hello,

The gdc-4.1 debian package has been uploaded 14 hours ago, please refer to  the
ftp master queue [0] and [1]. gdc-4.1 package is based on the gcc-4.1 package
(same debian/ dir) but as gnat or java it is built from separate sources, fell
free to contact me for more details on the packaging.
The package should hit the archive soon.

Have a nice day,

Arthur.

[0] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
[1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org