[Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:27 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
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> The current problem is that the linker mods for D break normal usage on

> Windows (even when D is not installed), not just the tests.  This can

> surely be fixed, but without a Windows box it's hard for Russel to work on

> that.


I am beginning to get the feeling that the whole linker set up is very
"Heath Robinson" :-(

I also think the D tools are driving a coach and horses through it in a
way that fails, even on Linux and OS X. The problem is that the C, C++,
and Fortran toolchains have grown up together and are very complex
internally. D has been tacked on the side and isn't integrated in the
same way that Fortran and C++ are to the C base.   

I suspect there are some tests that can be written to break on Linux
which may then solve the Windows situation.

-- 
Russel.
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