[Pkg-d-devel] Attempt to build BioD blocked by undeaD and missing module string (Was: How to build D source)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Matthias,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 03:00:36PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > It would be helpful if you could provide a Meson build definition and
> > I'd happily submit it upstream.
> 
> I had a coumple of minutes today: https://github.com/biod/BioD/pull/26

Cool.  I just read the conversation there.  I know Pjotr Prins from some
Debian Med sprint so I assumed he is open to support code from Debian.
:-)
 
> > The libbiod Git repository[1] is writable for every DD - so if you
> > would like to commit something there that would be really welcome.
> 
> I am even member of the Debian Med team, I think, so helping out won't
> be a problem at all ^^

:-)

> But don't count or rely on me please, I can't really promise anything.

Fully understand.  I like this kind of statement since it leads to
positive surprises when getting help rather than negative ones if you
expect something happens but there is no action. ;-)

> > My final target (actually also a predependency for another target)
> > is sambamba[2] which using BioD as a git subrepository to build.
> 
> That looks like fun, there are quite a couple of submodules... With
> BioD having a Meson build file now, it also got a pkg-config file, so
> integrating it with the sambamba Makefiles should be way easier (just
> calling pkg-config with the right flags while building should do the
> job).

Yes, very helpful.  I'll look into it the next couple of days (today
and tomorrow I'm busy with other stuff.

Thanks a lot for your help

       Andreas.

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