D-Apt DMD

rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 27 04:30:11 PST 2016


On 28/12/2016 1:23 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Sounds like rdmd should be a separate Debian and Fedora package. Since
> it is unencumbered by non-FOSS licencing it can get in with association
> to the ldc and gdc packages.
>
>
> On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 14:57 +1300, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On 27/12/2016 6:05 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> I find the DMD from D-Apt is still broken wrt -fPIC and the ability
>>> to
>>> compile any D code.
>>>
>>> Not a problem per se since LDC and GDC work fine. However I do miss
>>> rdmd.
>>
>> For future reference, source here[0]. Easy enough to compile + add
>> to
>> PATH if really necessary.
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/dlang/tools/blob/master/rdmd.d
>>

You will still need a D compiler, but yeah good idea (there is a bunch 
of other programs in there as well such as ddmangle which would make 
sense too).


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