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reply Eugene Wissner <belka caraus.de> writes:
As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some time 
ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by GDC is 
2.081.2 and it can be found in "gdc-7" and "gdc-8" branches. I 
will say a bit more about GDC development and development plans 
later.

I prepared GDC/GCC 7.3.0 binaries for x86-64 Linux built on 
Ubuntu 18.04:

https://download.dlackware.com/gdc/gdc-7.3.0_2.081.2-linux-x86_64.tar.xz

I’m not a regular Ubuntu user, and built GDC in a VM, so don't 
blame me (too much) if something doesn’t work, but let me know 
anyway. For testing I've used a minimal Ubuntu installation and 
had to install only "libc-dev" package. The package includes gcc, 
g++, gdc and standard GNU tools, but no D tools like dub. I still 
need some time to automate the building, then I can build for 
more platforms and provide some core tools.

We support several GCC versions and we still support C++-frontend 
(D version: 2.076). The reason for this is that C++-frontend 
should be merged into the next GCC version (GCC 9), then it can 
be built without another D compiler. D frontend goes into GCC 10 
and can be built with GCC 9, so GCC can be bootstrapped without 
external compilers and can be used to bootstrap other D compilers.

Current branch model. There are 2 "master" branches: master and 
stable. master contains D frontend and follows DMD master (we'll 
see if we can update every week or every two weeks). stable 
contains C++ frontend which doesn't get new D features anymore 
but of course we merge bug fixes from master. Both follow GCC 
master (master is updated weekly to GCC snapshots, stable from 
time to time).
stable has 4 derivates: gdc-8-stable, gdc-7-stable, gdc-6-stable 
and gdc-5-stable. It seems to be a lot, but the last merge from 
stable was really trivial, so the most work is done on the master 
derivates: "gdc-8" and "gdc-7" branches. These two follow DMD 
stable and contain stable D releases.
Aug 23 2018
next sibling parent M.M. <matus email.cz> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some 
 time ago and is up to date.


Really cool, and very much appreciated.


 I will say a bit more about GDC development and development 
 plans later.


Really looking forward to it.
Aug 23 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some 
 time ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by 
 GDC is 2.081.2 and it can be found in "gdc-7" and "gdc-8" 
 branches. I will say a bit more about GDC development and 
 development plans later.

 [...]


Btw. there are packages for archlinux on AUR
gdc-8 with d frontend: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdc/
gdc-8-stable with c++ frontend: 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdc-stable/
Aug 24 2018
parent reply Anonymouse <asdf asdf.net> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 08:30:35 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some 
 time ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by 
 GDC is 2.081.2 and it can be found in "gdc-7" and "gdc-8" 
 branches. I will say a bit more about GDC development and 
 development plans later.

 [...]


 Btw. there are packages for archlinux on AUR
 gdc-8 with d frontend: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdc/
 gdc-8-stable with c++ frontend: 
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdc-stable/


Is it supposed to be up to date in this sense? __VERSION__ is 
2068L with Manjaro/Arch gdc 8.2.0-1.
Aug 25 2018
parent reply Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:10 PM Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 08:30:35 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some
 time ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by
 GDC is 2.081.2 and it can be found in "gdc-7" and "gdc-8"
 branches. I will say a bit more about GDC development and
 development plans later.

 [...]


 Btw. there are packages for archlinux on AUR
 gdc-8 with d frontend: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdc/
 gdc-8-stable with c++ frontend:
 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdc-stable/


 Is it supposed to be up to date in this sense? __VERSION__ is
 2068L with Manjaro/Arch gdc 8.2.0-1.


Hmm I am not sure, but how long did you have this gdc package installed? It
seems I forgot to update .SRCINFO. There should be gdc-8.2.0-2 which has
2.081.1 d frontend.
I will fix this on monday, until than you can uninstall gdc and try to
build it again.
Aug 25 2018
next sibling parent Eugene Wissner <belka caraus.de> writes:
On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:59:56

 [...]


Thanks for supporting us on Arch, Daniel!
Aug 25 2018
prev sibling parent reply Anonymouse <asdf asdf.net> writes:
On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:59:56 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 Hmm I am not sure, but how long did you have this gdc package 
 installed? It
 seems I forgot to update .SRCINFO. There should be gdc-8.2.0-2 
 which has
 2.081.1 d frontend.
 I will fix this on monday, until than you can uninstall gdc and 
 try to
 build it again.


August 10th. I'll wait for -2 then.


 Installed Size  : 243.72 MiB
 Packager        : Unknown Packager
 Build Date      : fre 10 aug 2018 01:24:01
 Install Date    : fre 10 aug 2018 15:10:09
Aug 25 2018
parent Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:20 PM Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:59:56 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 August 10th. I'll wait for -2 then.


 Installed Size  : 243.72 MiB
 Packager        : Unknown Packager
 Build Date      : fre 10 aug 2018 01:24:01
 Install Date    : fre 10 aug 2018 15:10:09




Fixed. There should be gdc 8.2.0-3
Aug 27 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some 
 time ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by 
 GDC is 2.081.2


Great news. Best of luck for a wide adoption in the official 
package managers of the linux distributions.
Aug 24 2018
parent reply Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:40 AM Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some
 time ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by
 GDC is 2.081.2


 Great news. Best of luck for a wide adoption in the official
 package managers of the linux distributions.

 I do not think this will be an issue. I believe as soon as gdc will be


part of gcc it will be part of many linux distribution
Aug 24 2018
parent Matthias Klumpp <mak debian.org> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 08:50:22 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:40 AM Basile B. via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> 
 wrote:


 [...]
 Great news. Best of luck for a wide adoption in the official 
 package managers of the linux distributions.


 I do not think this will be an issue. I believe as soon as gdc 
 will be
 part of gcc it will be part of many linux distribution


Indeed. Having GDC merged into GCC is *huge* for the D language. 
It means that pretty much every Linux distribution out there will 
have a supported D compiler available, and this includes 
enterprise distributions like RHEL. Even if enterprise distros 
might not give full support for GDC, it will still be available.
I know from experience that this is something people look at when 
deciding whether using a programming language is viable and can 
be long-time supported in their company, so for D and the public 
image of D, being in GCC is absolutely awesome.

FWIW, Debian already has an up-to-date GDC 8, so does Ubuntu. 
"Unfortunately"[1] for GDC though, the default compiler for D 
stuff in Debian is LDC on most architectures, because it still 
works quite a bit better (as in: more D code can be compiled with 
it).

[1]: Not really, LDC is really good too!
Aug 24 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 thebird.nl> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 I prepared GDC/GCC 7.3.0 binaries for x86-64 Linux built on 
 Ubuntu 18.04:


Thank you, this is very important work! I'll add a gdc package to 
GNU Guix (the packager for GNU) sometime soon.
Aug 24 2018
prev sibling parent reply Arun Chandrasekaran <aruncxy gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some 
 time ago and is up to date. D version currently supported by 
 GDC is 2.081.2 and it can be found in "gdc-7" and "gdc-8" 
 branches. I will say a bit more about GDC development and 
 development plans later.

 I prepared GDC/GCC 7.3.0 binaries for x86-64 Linux built on 
 Ubuntu 18.04:

 https://download.dlackware.com/gdc/gdc-7.3.0_2.081.2-linux-x86_64.tar.xz

 I’m not a regular Ubuntu user, and built GDC in a VM, so don't 
 blame me (too much) if something doesn’t work, but let me know 
 anyway. For testing I've used a minimal Ubuntu installation and 
 had to install only "libc-dev" package. The package includes 
 gcc, g++, gdc and standard GNU tools, but no D tools like dub. 
 I still need some time to automate the building, then I can 
 build for more platforms and provide some core tools.

 We support several GCC versions and we still support 
 C++-frontend (D version: 2.076). The reason for this is that 
 C++-frontend should be merged into the next GCC version (GCC 
 9), then it can be built without another D compiler. D frontend 
 goes into GCC 10 and can be built with GCC 9, so GCC can be 
 bootstrapped without external compilers and can be used to 
 bootstrap other D compilers.

 Current branch model. There are 2 "master" branches: master and 
 stable. master contains D frontend and follows DMD master 
 (we'll see if we can update every week or every two weeks). 
 stable contains C++ frontend which doesn't get new D features 
 anymore but of course we merge bug fixes from master. Both 
 follow GCC master (master is updated weekly to GCC snapshots, 
 stable from time to time).
 stable has 4 derivates: gdc-8-stable, gdc-7-stable, 
 gdc-6-stable and gdc-5-stable. It seems to be a lot, but the 
 last merge from stable was really trivial, so the most work is 
 done on the master derivates: "gdc-8" and "gdc-7" branches. 
 These two follow DMD stable and contain stable D releases.


1. It would be good to print the DMD frontend version with `gdc 
--version`. It is helpful in reporting bugs. LDC does this.

```
$ ldc2 --version
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.9.0):
   based on DMD v2.079.1 and LLVM 6.0.0
   built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.9.0)
   Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
   Host CPU: ivybridge
   http://dlang.org - http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC

   Registered Targets:
     aarch64    - AArch64 (little endian)
     aarch64_be - AArch64 (big endian)
     arm        - ARM
     arm64      - ARM64 (little endian)
     armeb      - ARM (big endian)
     nvptx      - NVIDIA PTX 32-bit
     nvptx64    - NVIDIA PTX 64-bit
     ppc32      - PowerPC 32
     ppc64      - PowerPC 64
     ppc64le    - PowerPC 64 LE
     thumb      - Thumb
     thumbeb    - Thumb (big endian)
     x86        - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
     x86-64     - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
```

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.

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"
     }
Aug 27 2018
next sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
On 27 August 2018 at 19:23, Arun Chandrasekaran via
Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:

 On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

 As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some time ago and
 is up to date. D version currently supported by GDC is 2.081.2 and it can be
 found in "gdc-7" and "gdc-8" branches. I will say a bit more about GDC
 development and development plans later.

 I prepared GDC/GCC 7.3.0 binaries for x86-64 Linux built on Ubuntu 18.04:

 https://download.dlackware.com/gdc/gdc-7.3.0_2.081.2-linux-x86_64.tar.xz

 I’m not a regular Ubuntu user, and built GDC in a VM, so don't blame me
 (too much) if something doesn’t work, but let me know anyway. For testing
 I've used a minimal Ubuntu installation and had to install only "libc-dev"
 package. The package includes gcc, g++, gdc and standard GNU tools, but no D
 tools like dub. I still need some time to automate the building, then I can
 build for more platforms and provide some core tools.

 We support several GCC versions and we still support C++-frontend (D
 version: 2.076). The reason for this is that C++-frontend should be merged
 into the next GCC version (GCC 9), then it can be built without another D
 compiler. D frontend goes into GCC 10 and can be built with GCC 9, so GCC
 can be bootstrapped without external compilers and can be used to bootstrap
 other D compilers.

 Current branch model. There are 2 "master" branches: master and stable.
 master contains D frontend and follows DMD master (we'll see if we can
 update every week or every two weeks). stable contains C++ frontend which
 doesn't get new D features anymore but of course we merge bug fixes from
 master. Both follow GCC master (master is updated weekly to GCC snapshots,
 stable from time to time).
 stable has 4 derivates: gdc-8-stable, gdc-7-stable, gdc-6-stable and
 gdc-5-stable. It seems to be a lot, but the last merge from stable was
 really trivial, so the most work is done on the master derivates: "gdc-8"
 and "gdc-7" branches. These two follow DMD stable and contain stable D
 releases.



 1. It would be good to print the DMD frontend version with `gdc --version`.
 It is helpful in reporting bugs. LDC does this.

 ```
 $ ldc2 --version
 LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.9.0):
   based on DMD v2.079.1 and LLVM 6.0.0
   built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.9.0)
   Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
   Host CPU: ivybridge
   http://dlang.org - http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC

   Registered Targets:
     aarch64    - AArch64 (little endian)
     aarch64_be - AArch64 (big endian)
     arm        - ARM
     arm64      - ARM64 (little endian)
     armeb      - ARM (big endian)
     nvptx      - NVIDIA PTX 32-bit
     nvptx64    - NVIDIA PTX 64-bit
     ppc32      - PowerPC 32
     ppc64      - PowerPC 64
     ppc64le    - PowerPC 64 LE
     thumb      - Thumb
     thumbeb    - Thumb (big endian)
     x86        - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
     x86-64     - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
 ```


Version print information is managed outside of gdc.  You can get this
from __VERSION__ or output of -v


 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.


Ask dub maintainers why.


 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"
     }


Raise a bug then?

Iain.
Aug 27 2018
next sibling parent reply Anonymouse <asdf asdf.net> writes:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:44:01 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Raise a bug then?

 Iain.


How are we supposed to file GDC bugs when bugzilla account 
creation is restricted? I even emailed you about it back in May, 
but I imagine I was filtered as spam.
Aug 27 2018
parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
On 27 August 2018 at 20:59, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:

 On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:44:01 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Raise a bug then?

 Iain.



 How are we supposed to file GDC bugs when bugzilla account creation is
 restricted? I even emailed you about it back in May, but I imagine I was
 filtered as spam.


I checked, and can see that there's an account created, maybe I didn't
get back to you on confirmation?

I'll try again...
Aug 27 2018
prev sibling parent reply Arun Chandrasekaran <aruncxy gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:44:01 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 On 27 August 2018 at 19:23, Arun Chandrasekaran via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> 
 wrote:

[...]


 Version print information is managed outside of gdc.  You can 
 get this from __VERSION__ or output of -v


[...]


 Ask dub maintainers why.


[...]


 Raise a bug then?

 Iain.


Should I raise it at https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org ?

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Contact your administrator or the maintainer 
(ibuclaw gdcproject.org) for information about creating an 
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Aug 27 2018
parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
On 27 August 2018 at 20:59, Arun Chandrasekaran via
Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:

 On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:44:01 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 On 27 August 2018 at 19:23, Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
 <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:

 [...]



 Version print information is managed outside of gdc.  You can get this
 from __VERSION__ or output of -v


 [...]



 Ask dub maintainers why.


 [...]



 Raise a bug then?

 Iain.



 Should I raise it at https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org ?

 ```
 User account creation has been restricted.


Yes, due to high number of spam account on google mail, account
creation is limited for people coming from that domain.
Aug 27 2018
parent Arun Chandrasekaran <aruncxy gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 20:03:28 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 On 27 August 2018 at 20:59, Arun Chandrasekaran via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> 
 wrote:

 On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 17:44:01 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 On 27 August 2018 at 19:23, Arun Chandrasekaran via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> 
 wrote:

 [...]



 Version print information is managed outside of gdc.  You can 
 get this from __VERSION__ or output of -v


 [...]



 Ask dub maintainers why.


 [...]



 Raise a bug then?

 Iain.



 Should I raise it at https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org ?

 ```
 User account creation has been restricted.


 Yes, due to high number of spam account on google mail, account 
 creation is limited for people coming from that domain.


https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305
Aug 27 2018
prev sibling parent reply Eugene Wissner <belka caraus.de> writes:
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.
Aug 27 2018
parent reply Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 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


This is not true, right now on archlinux if you type gdc --version it will
display d frontend version
https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89#c1
Aug 27 2018
parent reply Eugene Wissner <belka caraus.de> writes:
On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 06:18:28 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eugene Wissner via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> 
 wrote:


 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


 This is not true, right now on archlinux if you type gdc 
 --version it will display d frontend version 
 https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89#c1


Is it set with --with-pkgversion? The same information will be 
displayed for gcc and g++ then. It is not always desirable if you 
ship the compiler as a whole (with libtool etc).
Aug 27 2018
parent reply Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:40 AM Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 06:18:28 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eugene Wissner via
 Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com>
 wrote:


 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


 This is not true, right now on archlinux if you type gdc
 --version it will display d frontend version
 https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89#c1


 Is it set with --with-pkgversion? The same information will be
 displayed for gcc and g++ then. It is not always desirable if you
 ship the compiler as a whole (with libtool etc).


Yes and no. It is set with  --with-pkgversion but it is only for gdc.
Aug 28 2018
parent reply Johannes Pfau <nospam example.com> writes:
Am Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:19:46 +0200 schrieb Daniel Kozak:


 On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:40 AM Eugene Wissner via
 Digitalmars-d-announce <
 digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:
 

 On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 06:18:28 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:55 PM Eugene Wissner via
 Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com>
 wrote:


 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


 This is not true, right now on archlinux if you type gdc --version it
 will display d frontend version
 https://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89#c1


 Is it set with --with-pkgversion? The same information will be
 displayed for gcc and g++ then. It is not always desirable if you ship
 the compiler as a whole (with libtool etc).


 Yes and no. It is set with  --with-pkgversion but it is only for gdc.


But this only works as you build gdc and gcc separately. I.e. for gdc, 
you build gcc+gdc, then throw away everything but gdc related 
executables. Then you compile gcc with different --with-pkgversion for 
the gcc package.

However, this has the problem that your gcc executable now does not 
properly forward .d files to gdc as that build did not have --enable-
languages=d. The supported way to do this is build all gcc based 
compilers at once. But then you can't use --with-pkgversion as it will 
apply to all compilers.

-- 
Johannes
Aug 28 2018
parent Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:35 AM Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 But this only works as you build gdc and gcc separately. I.e. for gdc,
 you build gcc+gdc, then throw away everything but gdc related
 executables. Then you compile gcc with different --with-pkgversion for
 the gcc package.

 However, this has the problem that your gcc executable now does not
 properly forward .d files to gdc as that build did not have --enable-
 languages=d. The supported way to do this is build all gcc based
 compilers at once. But then you can't use --with-pkgversion as it will
 apply to all compilers.

 --
 Johannes


Yes, but I never use gcc to compile .d files (I did not know it will work
anyway :) ), so I do not see this as a big issue.
But I understand it could be an issue for somebody else and it will be an
issue when gdc will be officialy part of gcc.
Aug 29 2018