'exp' vs 'std'? Forked: Vote for std.process

[Timothee Cour]

ok I was talking about user code. To also make it work with phobos, it
would also have to be recompiled (recompiling just phobos is fast
anyways); the simplest would be the following:

A) user defines an environment variable PHOBOS_INC (which defaults to
-I$phobos_root but can be overridden for example by
-I$phobos_root/experimental -I$phobos_root).

B) $phobos_root/posix.mak (+ windows makefiles) is improved to support
reading in $PHOBOS_INC
currently we have:
STD_MODULES = $(addprefix std/, algorithm array process ...)
we should instead use $PHOBOS_INC to follow the same logic as dmd
would, ie use the first module that comes on the import path and avoid
duplication. Actually I suggested somewhere else to rewrite phobos's
makefile by a simpler makefile written in D. That would make this
easy.



On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:03:07 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/15/13, Timothee Cour <thelastmammoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How does that work if both modules are std.process?  Wouldn't there be a
>>>> link error?
>>>
>>>
>>> There won't be a 'duplicate symbol definition', instead, dmd will find
>>> the first file on the import path that defines a module std.process.
>>
>>
>> Phobos comes as a prebuilt static library, which DMD uses. But Phobos
>> can't be built entirely as a static library if there are two modules
>> with the same name.
>
>
> Yes, that was my question, the library will define two std.process.  What
> would happen?
>
> -Steve