[Scons-dev] D and building libraries, breaking changes, etc.

[Bill Deegan]

Better to post to users group for usage questions.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> 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.
>
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