Mac OSX installer for dmd

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el  4 de agosto a las 12:41 me escribiste:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >Walter Bright wrote:
> >>Michel Fortin wrote:
> >>>As a side note, my D plugin for Xcode expects DMD to be
> >>>available at /usr/local/bin/{dmd,dmd1,dmd2} and the runtime
> >>>libraries should be in /usr/local/lib. It won't work if the
> >>>files can't be found there, although I might change that if an
> >>>official distribution of DMD installs itself elsewhere.
> >>
> >>To me, the biggest problem is deciding where the files should
> >>go. There doesn't seem to be any consensus or culture in OS X
> >>about this.
> >
> >Since we're talking about a Unix command-line utility, I suggest
> >we go with the Unix traditional directories.
> 
> Which are what, for:

I'd say:

> dmd

/usr/local/bin

> libphobos

/usr/local/lib

> phobos imports

/usr/local/include/d (d is just a suggestion, since at least
Debian/Ubuntu uses that, well, without the "local" because are official
packages, for gdc and ldc).

And you may add /usr/local/etc as a search path for dmd.conf (and look
for it *before* /etc is searched) and install dmd.conf there.

Main reference:
FHS: /usr/local Local hierarchy:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY

Some other references:
FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
LSB: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb (yes,
Linux only)

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