I think we need to standardize where D headers are to be installed

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:02:21 -0500, Alex Rønne Petersen <alex at lycus.org>  
wrote:

> It seems it's very inconsistent where D headers are installed across  
> various systems/distros. Some use $PREFIX/include/d/, some use  
> $PREFIX/include/<d compiler>/, $PREFIX/include/<target triple>/d/, etc...
>
> Can people who are familiar with how some particular system does it  
> weigh in here? I think that first of all, we need to figure out how it's  
> done and then figure out how we want it to be done. C has always used  
> $PREFIX/include, so we need some kind of standard, too.
>
> FWIW I think $PREFIX/include/d/ would be sane enough, where particular  
> projects could install their headers to $PREFIX/include/d/<project>/.
>


I have given it quite a bit of thought regarding package management, and  
such.
I think you are correct.  The ideal would be a single -I/path/to/include/d  
so that any program could then import deimos.ncurses, or gtkd.widget.

IMO the easiest way to standardize would be to add -I$PREFIX/include/d to  
the standard install config file.
Then we would have a sane standard that exists by default.

my dmd.conf ┕[1100110]━>cat /etc/dmd.conf
[Environment]
DFLAGS=-I/usr/include/d -I~/Code/vibe.d/source  
-I/usr/include/d/druntime/import -L-L/usr/lib -L-L/usr/lib32  
-L-L/usr/lib64 -L--no-warn-search-mismatch

I don't know if it is in there by default or not, but the first -I is a  
lifesaver.