"module is in multiple packages" error

[Jona Joachim]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:17:33 +0100, Johan Granberg wrote:

> Jona Joachim wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> I have to bother you with a beginner problem...
>> I want to develop a spring model engine where you have pointmasses
>> attached to spring which oscillate and stuff.
>> I created a module called "connectors" which contains all sorts of
>> connectors like springs, dampers, ... and a module called "point" which
>> contains pointmasses and hooks.
>> Now a connector should know what pointmasses are attached to it and a
>> pointmass should know to which connectors it is attached...
>> That's why point.d does a "private import connector" and connector.d does
>> a "private import point". This works very well in C with header files and
>> #ifdefs. However gdc throws following error:
>> 
>> gdc -I/home/jona/prog/d/derelict -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -c point.d
>> connector.d:5: module constructor.point is in multiple packages
>> constructor.point gmake: *** [point.o] Error 1
>> 
>> Could anybody tell me how I should manage this kind of situation?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Jona
> 
> Try declaring the modules explicityl.
> 
> in point.d you write:
> module point;//or directoryname.subdirectoryname.point
> 
> and in constructor you write:
> module constructor;
> 
> if this doesent work how does you directory structur looks like (is point
> and constructor in the same directory?)

"constructor" is the (temporary) name of the project. All files are in the
same directory. I declared all modules explicitly like this:
module constructor.point;
or
module constructor.connector;
and so on.

I just found out that my problem disappears when I omit the
"constructor." part.
I don't understand why it all went fine using the above naming scheme
until two modules tried to import themselves mutually and then in that
case it didn't work anymore.
However I'm happy that it seems to work now!

Thanks for your help!

Jona