[Issue 1940] Phobos buildscripts do not work on x86_64

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1940





------- Comment #14 from andrei at metalanguage.com  2008-06-23 12:18 -------
(In reply to comment #13)
> True.
> 
> The issue I had was just that dmd 2.014 creates broken headers, which made the
> resulting package unusable. dmd 2.015 creates not so broken headers, which is
> why I prefer to use the bundled dmd instead of the system dmd.
> 
> If you would ship libphobos seperately

Gaaaa! (I have a hysteria fit whenever I see "seperate" and its derivees.)

> from dmd, replacing the system dmd
> first, and then building libphobos with that one would have been my idea, too.
> 
> I do not know what your policy to adding features and backwards compatibility
> is, but I would assume that it might be possible that the old system dmd does
> not understand the syntax or keywords used for the new to-be-compiled
> libphobos.
> 
> I guess this is a matter of what to make the sane default.

I think it's fair to use whatever is in your PATH by default and allow you to
specify DMD=/path/to/dmd in make's command line. I'll operate these changes and
will commit for next release.


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