dsss build, tango, GC ?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-06-10 23:20, Ferd Burton wrote:
> == Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob at me.com)'s article
>> On 2010-06-09 21:16, Fred Burton wrote:
>>> Hi, I have (sort of) 2 questions:
>>>
>>> Background:
>>> I was doing some coding using Phobos, and recently switched to using Tango.
>>>
>>> 1. I'm trying to build using dsss and it says :
>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> --- errorlevel 1
>>> Command /usr/bin/rebuild returned with code 65280, aborting.
>>> Error: Command failed, aborting.
>> You have to change your default rebuild configuration file. It's located
>> in /etc/rebuild/default on Posix systems. Change the "profile" value to
>> "dmd-posix-tango". Looking at the "dmd-posix" file, you can see, in the
>> link section, that it explicitly links to "phobos" which is not
>> necessary (at least not anymore). That's why you get the linker error.
>
> Thanks.
>
> (trying...)
>
> okay, now it gives:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltango-base-dmd
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
> Command /usr/bin/rebuild returned with code 65280, aborting.
> Error: Command failed, aborting.
>
> hmm... I have a
> /usr/lib/libtango-dmd.a
>
> editing dmd-posix-tango to go from
>      cmd=dmd -L--start-group -L-ltango-base-dmd $i -of$o
> to
>      cmd=dmd -L--start-group -L-ltango-dmd $i -of$o
> works!

Previously (when that config file was written) tango was split in two 
libraries: base and user. Now it's just one library.

> Now it seems to cleanly build with tango.

That's good to hear

>
> It does still leak memory though ( ran for 4 minutes, 20 seconds and:
>
> ==3411== 237,749,649 bytes in 515,441 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1,024 of 1,024
> ==3411==    at 0x4024918: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
> ==3411==    by 0x806D11C: gc_malloc (in /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8069670: _d_arrayappendcT (in /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8064F17: _D5tango4text4Util12__T5splitTaZ5splitFAaAaZAAa15__foreachbody24MFKAaZi (in
> /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8065013: _D5tango4text4Util20__T12PatternFructTaZ12PatternFruct7opApplyMFDFKAaZiZi (in
> /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8064EED: _D5tango4text4Util12__T5splitTaZ5splitFAaAaZAAa (in /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8065B9C: _D3flb3gui8wordwrap9word_wrapFAAafC3flb3gui9themebase10IStyleTextZAAa (in
> /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x80659BE: _D3flb3gui8somewind13ACustomWindow4drawMFC3flb3gui7guibase13Idraw_contextZv (in
> /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8063672: _D3flb3gui7guibase14window_manager4drawMFC3flb3gui7guibase13Idraw_contextZv (in
> /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x804A2C9: _D3flb3gui5glgui5GlGui3runMFZv (in /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x804A33B: _Dmain (in /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==    by 0x8068133: _D2rt8compiler3dmd2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv (in /home/fburton/lang/d/guigl/glgui)
> ==3411==
>
> )

I guess I can't help you with that one.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg