Building druntime on MAC OS X

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Nov 18 00:13:06 PST 2013


On 2013-11-17 17:32, Andrew Edwards wrote:

> I have couple issues remaining for Mac OS X that I'm hoping you can
> provide some clarification on:
>
> 1) The install option for TOOLS, unlike DMD, DRUNTIME or PHOBOS attempts
> to install the generated binaries directly to /usr/local/bin/. Better to
> insert them in ../install/bin/ like the other three allowing for
> automatic inclusion in the release zip and installer.

I don't know. This doesn't seem specific to Mac OS X. I guess what's 
ever making it easier to automate releases.

> 2) Executing DMD with no arguments displays the version number,
> copyright, and usage info of course. Whether building from the v2.064 or
> v2.064.2 tag on github, the resulting binary always displays "DMD64 D
> Compiler v2.064-devel-a9eedd1". How do I get it to build in the correct
> version? The VERSION file is present in the git clone but for some
> reason it is ignored?

Try the latest HEAD. For me that correctly updates the version number 
and the git hash.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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