GDC rpm for Fedora?
F i L
witte2008 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 14:55:58 PST 2011
On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 21:50:18 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> F i L 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.
>
> I have a SRPM which patches and compiles Fedora's GCC
> package(s). It creates gcc-d (example:
> /home/dejan/var/rpm/RPMS/x86_64/gcc-
> d-4.5.1-4.fc14.x86_64.rpm ) RPM, and replaces system's gcc. I
> had no time to update it for use with later GCC because I
> decided to wait for GDC to be included in GCC, and then D will
> be in GCC anyway... :)
>
> If you wish, I can update my SRPM and post it somewhere
> together with my .spec file.
Thanks for the offer but I think I'll just wait for the GDC to be
included in the GCC as well. For now, I can use LDC and DMD with
Mono-D fine and terminal compile with GDC when I want that extra
umf.
Thanks for everyone's help and input on this.
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