Bikeshedding fun: suggest a name for 64 bit Phobos library

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Sep 6 01:42:54 PDT 2010


On 2010-09-06 08:24, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Brad Roberts wrote:
>> On 9/5/2010 9:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> We already have:
>>>
>>> libphobos.a Phobos 1, 32 bit
>>> libphobos2.a Phobos 2, 32 bit
>>>
>>> What should the 64 bit Phobos be named?
>>
>> No change in name, change in directory holding it.
>>
>> ie.. lib64/libphobos*
>>
>> That's what most major distributions do.
>
> Or even no change at all, like a multilib OS does:
> "Architectures in the fat file: /usr/lib/libgphobos.a are: ppc ppc64
> i386 x86_64"
>
> But since it's just a static library (still, right?)
> it's more a question of directories and -L-L DFLAGS
>
> --anders

Tango can be built as a dynamic library on Mac OS X since a while, just 
waiting for Sean to apply the rest of the patch for druntime (half of 
the patch is already applied by Walter).

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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