DMD test suite not runnable on Debian/Linux

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On a tangential note, now that I finally got the miserable test suite
> running, I've managed to figure out that the problem in my dmd PR was
> caused by src/ddmd/globals.h not being auto-generated from
> src/ddmd/globals.d, so when I added new fields to the Global struct, the
> C++ code that use globals.h with the old definition crashed. I suppose
> this is just a relic from the pre-self-hosting days, but it would be
> nice if these last .h files were gotten rid of in the near future.
>
> That, or we should (ab)use the .di generation facility or some sed
> script to generate these .h files, so that they won't go out-of-sync
> inadvertently.

we can use UDAs to do that! just make the generator import the relevand dmd 
parts, and then use compile-time introspection to build tables, so 
generator can just write 'em to file in runtime. ;-)