GDC with D frontend 2.081.2

[Eugene Wissner]

On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:23:04 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> 1. It would be good to print the DMD frontend version with `gdc 
> --version`. It is helpful in reporting bugs. LDC does this.
>
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible. GCC doesn't allow 
to change --version output: 
https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89

Other compilers like gccgo print the same. It can be probably 
useful to introduce an additional frontend command line option.

> 2. I see a file dub_platform_probe-UUID.s getting created in 
> the root dir when building with GDC and not with DMD/LDC.
>

Partially looks like a dub bug: 
https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/576

But anyway it is wrong that they are created in the project 
directory; I suppose I miss some build options.

> 3. Multiple definition error. Logs: 
> https://bpaste.net/show/7b12dfccceb1 This doesn't seem to be a 
> problem when building with DMD (v2.081.1) / LDC (1.9.0)
>
>     "dependencies" : {
>         "darg": "~>0.0.4",
>         "painlessjson": "~>1.3.5",
>         "requests": "~>0.8.3"
>     }

Have to test it first. Thanks.