GDC rpm for Fedora?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 12 12:35:53 PST 2011


On 12 December 2011 20:17, F i L <witte2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any chance we might see a GDC Fedora .rpm at some point? I'm relatively new
> to Linux in general but I use Fedora because it has LDC D2 in the software
> center and comes with a clean Gnome Shell (my favorite DE) by default. If I
> had more experience I'd try to build one myself, only I just got GDC to
> compile a month ago and I still don't know how to install it (like the LDC
> is installed) so I think I'm a bit too green just yet. GCC seems to yield
> better overall runtime performance than LLVM so I'd like to easily be able
> to use GDC with Mono-D without having to Bash "export
> PATH=$PATH:/opt/gdc/bin" or remember not to delete the gdc folder out of my
> Home directory.


Fedora requires that GDC be on the current release that they are
shipping in rawhide (which currently would be 4.7 pre-release) - as
there is no (actively maintained) port for that, they probably won't
ship.  The same issue is with gcc-pascal too, to which only supports
4.1.

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Iain Buclaw

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