Error after installing DMD v2.063

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jun 3 14:13:26 PDT 2013


On 6/3/2013 12:50 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 12:38 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/3/2013 8:59 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> Is there a tarball or only this infamous zipfile?
>>
>> I can't believe it is hard to create a tarball from a zipfile.
>
> Actually it can be since tarballs can represent symbolic links whereas
> it appears zipfiles cannot.

1. unzip the zip file
2. add symbolic links
3. create tarball


> However, I think the issue here re deb files
> is deeper. The solution to the issue as far as generating a deb is
> concerned is to tag the DMD Git repository so that anyone can generate
> an official source tarball given the release tag.

It's already tagged with v2.063


> I appreciate there are licencing issues that means we cannot expect to
> get DMD into Debian itself, if we can have a Debian toolchain build that
> targets Debian non-free, we can get DMD into Ubuntu and Mint as well as
> accesible for Debian users. I believe this to be a good aim.

Sounds good to me.



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