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Bug 45

Summary:	gdmd does not accept rdmd output
Product:	GDC	Reporter:	Dicebot <m.strashun>
Component:	gdc	Assignee:	Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	gdcproject
Priority:	---
Version:	development
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Dicebot 2013-03-19 11:59:58 CET

I have built rdmd with gdc and have tried to build a simple hello world program with it. Results:

[mist@fog devel]$ rdmd --chatty tmp.d 
stat /tmp/.rdmd-1000
stat /tmp/.rdmd-1000/rdmd-tmp.d-77E7597A9EFF6B225DBE8D26FFAE1883
stat /tmp/.rdmd-1000/rdmd-tmp.d-77E7597A9EFF6B225DBE8D26FFAE1883/rdmd.deps
'gdmd' '--' '-v' '-o-' 'tmp.d' '-I.'
gdmd: unrecognized switch '--'
Failed: 'gdmd' '--' '-v' '-o-' 'tmp.d' '-I.'

According to source code, rdmd seems to always prepend "--" before other parameters:

110     // Insert "--" to tell getopts when to stop
111     args = args[0..programPos] ~ "--" ~ args[programPos .. $];

Comment 1 Vladimir Panteleev 2013-03-19 12:21:17 CET

This behavior is caused by a (now fixed) bug in Phobos, and rdmd's reliance on that bug.

See here:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9583
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9622

To resolve the problem, compile rdmd against a matching version of Phobos, or patch rdmd locally.

Comment 2 Dicebot 2013-03-19 12:28:09 CET

Thanks. I think the best actually is to contact gdc-git package maintainer in AUR to add building of matching rdmd to package.