gdc-4.5 testing

[Neal Becker]

Does this support building shared libs now (on x86_64)?

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>> Other than that, it seemed to apply cleanly to
>>>> Fedora 14's version of GCC (gcc-4.5.1-20100924)
> 
>>> Not only applied, but also seems to be working... :-)
>>> Once the enormous build and test completed, that is.
>>> So now you can install both "ldc" and "gcc-d" (gdc),
>>> and work with both Tango and Phobos from RPM packages.
> 
>> That's certainly nice to hear, considering the number of changes required
>> were considerably less than what was needed for gcc-4.4 (then again, many
>> of them were backports from gcc-4.5 anyway ;). Of those changes made,
>> they all turned out to be pretty quick/lazy edits.
> 
> I uploaded the packages to SourceForge, if anyone else
> wants to try them... It's made for Fedora 14 (x86_64):
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcgnu/files/gdc/8ac6cb4f40aa/
> 
> gcc-d-4.5.1-4.fc14.x86_64.rpm (5.2M) # gdc
> phobos-devel-4.5.1-4.fc14.x86_64.rpm (764K)
> 
> gcc-4.5.1-4.fc14.diff (3901 bytes, the specfile changes)
> gcc-4.5.1-4.fc14.src.rpm (54M, but 5G+ / hours to build)
> 
> As noted earlier, LDC and Tango was already part of the
> system release and are available in the yum repositories:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/D_Programming
> 
> ldc-0.9.2-25.20101114hg1698.fc14.x86_64.rpm (4.1M)
> tango-devel-0.99.9-19.20100826svn5543.fc14.x86_64.rpm (2.2M)
> 
> And then it's just a matter of running "gdmd" or "ldmd",
> but if you want to use D2 you should still install "dmd":
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.050-0.i386.rpm
> 
>    ****
> 
> The GDC RPMs need to be built for i686, updated to 4.5.1-6 -
> and adopted for inclusion in Rawhide, upgraded to GCC 4.6...
> 
> Most likely the imports should be moved to "include/d/4.5"
> and libgphobos.a moved to inside "lib/gcc" directory, too ?
> 
> But that's up to Fedora packagers.
> 
> --anders