LDC build issues for PowerPC and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} on Debian

[Joakim via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 12:25:19 UTC, Konstantinos 
Margaritis via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:38:07 +0000
> David Nadlinger via digitalmars-d-ldc 
> <digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 19:01:49 UTC, Konstantinos 
>> Margaritis via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
>> > So, I guess in most cases where "version( linux )" is used, 
>> > an
>> > equivalent "version ( glibc )" might be used that would 
>> > cater for both OSes.
>> 
>> This seems like a promising direction as we have a very 
>> similar problem with Android, although it's the other way 
>> round there (Linux Kernel, but Bionic instead of glibc).
>> 
>> If anybody is interested in taking this up, please be sure to 
>> coordinate this with upstream druntime, as all compilers would 
>> benefit from that.
>
> I can give it a shot locally and at least find out if it works 
> at all,
> by replacing linux with glibc. If it does work on kfreebsd, I 
> could
> attempt to send a patch upstream.

I thought about mentioning the Android connection, but didn't 
because I figured you probably didn't want to do that work.  
Replacing linux with glibc might work for kfreebsd, but it's not 
going to be accepted upstream, because right now "linux" really 
means "linux kernel and glibc."  Simply renaming it to "glibc" 
doesn't really solve the problem, that we need to separate out 
the linux kernel APIs from the glibc APIs.

Since I've been working on an Android port of D, I've offered to 
help with this a couple times, by separating the bionic APIs that 
are currently lumped with linux kernel APIs, if someone else 
pitched in on separating linux+glibc, but never found anyone who 
was interested.  If you are, let me know.