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

[Matthias Klumpp]

2017-03-02 23:36 GMT+01:00 Matthias Klumpp <mak at debian.org>:
> 2017-03-02 21:48 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:28:33PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>>>
>>> Highly unlikely - the library makes use of undead.stream quite
>>> excessively, and exchnging it won't be a fast task, especially if you
>>> are not using the library. So, I'd rely on upstream here to port away
>>> from deprecated stuff one day ;-).
>>> (so, go ahead with undeaD packaging - undeaD might actually make some
>>> sense to have under the D Team umbrella one day, but ideally it gets
>>> packaged for BioD and then removed in a few years when nothing is
>>> using it anymore)
>>
>> I've tried my luck with a meson build script for libundead but failed.
>> May be somebody could have a luck at
>>
>>    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/libundead.git
>>
>> and fix my poor attempt to build a libundead package.
>>
>> Any help is welcome
>
> Why don't you just use the one I submitted upstream? (ACK'ed but not merged)
> The PR is linked from the BioD PR ;-)
> https://github.com/dlang/undeaD/pull/20

I just fixed up the package :-)
It should now just build, I haven't tested yet whether it works with
BioD (but I see no reason why it wouldn't).
Upstream should probably do a new release though, to make compiling
this with recent D compilers easier.

Cheers,
    Matthias

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