ldc 0.15.1 minimal patch to support llvm 3.6.1

[John Colvin via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 16:24:04 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 08:14:33 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> I need to be able to get ldc 0.15.1 to compile with llvm 3.6.1 
>> for homebrew. Are there some convenient commits I can use to 
>> patch it, or is it all a bit more complicated than that?
>>
>> Also, what's the expected release for 0.15.2? If you expect it 
>> to be fully released very shortly, this wouldn't be worth 
>> doing and we'd just wait until then.
>
> Hi John,
>
> at least you need the patch from this pull request 
> https://github.com/gentoo/dlang/pull/14 to compile(!) 0.15.1 
> with LLVM 3.6.
> In order to get a working ldc you also need this commit: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/commit/d1e764cec1788f4c3f3d09045b8adb8dc9c0d857.
>
> You would touch more than 40 files with both patch sets. I 
> think it is better to spent the effort to test 0.15.2-beta2.
>
> (I try to release 0.15.2 soon.)
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Hmm, that doesn't seem ideal. I think we'll just have to 
distribute the beta as stable for a short while until 0.15.2 is 
released.