DSSS 0.78 released.

[Leonid Krashenko]

Gregor Richards wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Gregor Richards <Richards at codu.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Leonid Krashenko wrote:
>>>> Gregor Richards wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am getting strange errors using rebuild/dsss:
>>>> http://codepad.org/MfhzjJFG
>>>>
>>>> If I use my own Makefile, everything compiles, links and runs
>>>> successfully:
>>>>
>>>> cc = dmd
>>>> flags = -unittest
>>>> link_flags = -L-lX11
>>>> source_dirs = y std/c/linux/X11 tl
>>>>
>>>> src_files = $(addsuffix /*.d, $(source_dirs))
>>>> src_objs = $(patsubst %.d, %.o, $(wildcard $(src_files)))
>>>>
>>>> paint: paint.o $(src_objs)
>>>>        $(cc) $^ $(link_flags)
>>>>
>>>> main: main.o $(src_objs)
>>>>        $(cc) $^ $(link_flags)
>>>>
>>>> VPATH := $(source_dirs) .
>>>>
>>>> %.o: %.d
>>>>        $(cc) -c $^ $(flags) -op
>>>>
>>>> clean:
>>>>        rm -f $(addsuffix /*.o, . $(source_dirs))
>>>>        rm -f paint
>>>>        rm -f main
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> Rebuild ignores D files in the package 'std', since those should be
>>> packages provided by the standard library. You really oughtn't to name
>>> things 'std' anyway, and putting 'X11' in std.c.linux doesn't make much
>>> sense regardless.
>> 
>> Is that behavior new with DSSS 0.78?
>> What does that mean for Tangobos, which is not the standard library
>> but is completely in the std package?
>> 
>> --bb
> 
> This is not new. If you're using Tango, you (should) use the rebuild
> profile for Tango, which doesn't ignore the std package since that's not
> part of Tango.
> 
> The only reason it has to actively ignore the std package is because
> they're .d files instead of the .di files they ought to be.
> 
>   - Gregor Richards

But in this case the use of Makefiles is more flexible... And this behavior
of Rebuild really is not obvious.. isn't it better to change it?