debian package for gdc

[robspassky]

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