Hacking on Phobos

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 17.04.2012 23:27, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 17/04/12 20:29, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> First things first - development of phobos is done with dmd. Just
>> because gdc is
>> (logically so) somewhat behind dmd and new compiler features are still
>> coming
>> with every release.
>
> Fair enough. I've followed the instructions here:
> https://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/d-building-dmd-and-phobos-on-linux/
>
>
>> I suggest to just modify phobos sources directly. It's DVCS after all
>> so you
>> always have a luxury of commit/revert.
>
> I want to do some side-by-side tests of current and new, so it makes
> sense to just have a myrandom.d.
>
>> and rdmd --main -unittest /path/to/std/random.d
>> works wonders in development cycle.
>
> Oddly enough building rdmd with my newly-build dmd results in error:
>
Just feed it -d switch ;)
Still somebody has to step up and upgrade rdmd to use the new way of Phobos.


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Dmitry Olshansky