• Iain Buclaw (30/30) Jul 07 2013 Not sure this is common knowledge, as am still getting questions
• F i L (1/1) Jul 07 2013 Awesome! Would be great to see on the official Arch repos! :)
• edam (7/13) Jul 08 2013 Would you be able to give an update about the state of the merge

"Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:

Not sure this is common knowledge, as am still getting questions 
/ propositions off people for this.  Through collaboration of the 
gcc maintainers at Debian/Ubuntu, gdc has been merged in with the 
gcc source package, and is available for all architectures 
supported by Debian (albeit, with the majority shipping without a 
library).

You can view binary packages here:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/gdc-4.8

And for those interested, can track testsuite/unittester 
pass/failures at this link (Click on the "installed", link, and 
do a search for "gdc tests")

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-4.8

I think a thanks to Matthias and Peter are in order for their 
efforts for this. :)

Obviously we will need to port at least druntime to these 
architectures that don't currently ship the D standard libraries 
to allow people to start using, and testing D on their favourite 
non-x86 architecture.

Should be getting access to Debian port boxes pretty soon, but if 
anyone has any hardware running Debian, any donations or ssh 
access would be gladly appreciated.  It would be good to get this 
done by the end of the year.

Lastly, if anyone has ties with other distributions, it would be 
great to see if you can get talking with other distributions - in 
particular, fedora/centos - to see if we can get them to follow 
suit.


As always, the agenda is lets show the world that D2 is both 
portable in implementation, and rox on their hardware. :o)


Regards
Iain.

"F i L" <witte2008 gmail.com> writes:

Awesome! Would be great to see on the official Arch repos! :)

"edam" <edam waxworlds.org> writes:

Hi Iain,

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 22:05:10 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Not sure this is common knowledge, as am still getting 
 questions / propositions off people for this.  Through 
 collaboration of the gcc maintainers at Debian/Ubuntu, gdc has 
 been merged in with the gcc source package, and is available 
 for all architectures supported by Debian (albeit, with the 
 majority shipping without a library).

Would you be able to give an update about the state of the merge 
with upstream GCC?  I remember reading some mailing list posts a 
while back (last year?) on gcc-patches, but I've heard nothing 
since.

Also, thanks for your (and others) hard work on this!