Re: D and building libraries, breaking changes, etc.
Bill Deegan <bill-cJFiu+DHMVC5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
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Better to post to users group for usage questions. On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > SCons is beginning to gear up to releasing version 3. > > In looking at the D tooling, I have found something of an inconsistency > that would lead to a breaking change. SCons 2 → 3 would be a good place > to do this, but it would require short-circuiting SCons' usual > deprecation process. > > Currently the dmd, ldc, and gdc tools not only set up the compiler, > they also introduce the StaticLibrary builder, but not the > SharedLibrary builder. SCons normal set up is to use the link tool to > set up SharedLibrary builder and ar tool to set up StaticLibrary > builder. dmd, ldc, and gdc should not set up StaticLibrary builder. > > So does anyone using SCons for D builds use StaticLibrary builder > without using the ar tool? If in SCons 3 you were required to use the > ar tool to get the StaticLibrary builder would there be a problem? > > Also another issue of a breaking change: does anyone use SCons for D > builds on Fedora using the version of LDC where the library was called > libphobos-ldc.so instead of libphobos2-ldc.so. There is a hack in the > ldc tool for this. I would like to remove the hack. This is technically > a breaking change so should go into the deprecation cycle, I would like > to short circuit this as well in the light of moving SCons 2 → 3 and > allow breaking changes. > > The default answer to questions is no, which would mean waiting for > SCons 4 to make these breaking changes. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================ > ================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev > > _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev