[Debian-med-packaging] [Pkg-d-devel] Next D project question: sambamba needs rdmd

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Matthias,

On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 09:11:38PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > rdmd --force --build-only --compiler=dmd -IBioD -g -d -L-l:lhts -L-l:libphobos2.a -L-l:llz4 -ofbuild/sambamba main.d
> > make[1]: rdmd: Command not found
> >
> > But Debian has no rdmd.  Is there anything I can use instead?
> > [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/sambamba.git
> 
> rdmd is part of DMD, and not packaged. Unlike with packaging DMD
> itself, having rdmd in Debian main is actually possible (no
> restrictive licenses), and would require to package
> https://github.com/dlang/tools
> 
> Alternatively, given that rdmd is really just a wrapper around other
> commands, you could add the build/link steps manually. The ldmd2
> command in the LDC package will help you with that (ldmd2 is a
> dmd-compatible wrapper around LDC, so dmd flags can be reused).

I think I was able to start the compile process with an according patch.
Unfortunately there is some trouble with libundead.  As per status in
remote Git libundead is missing.  If I do

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2799444..fe55d95 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.
 Uploaders: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
                ldc,
+               libundead-dev,
                libbiod-dev,
                liblz4-dev,
                libhts-dev


the build ends in


make[1]: Entering directory '/build/sambamba-0.6.5'
mkdir -p build/
ldmd2 -IBioD -g -d -L-l:lhts -L-l:libphobos2.a -L-l:llz4 -ofbuild/sambamba main.d
sambamba/slice.d(106): Error: undead.stream.Stream at /usr/include/d/undead/stream.d(390) conflicts with std.stream.Stream at /usr/lib/ldc/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/d/std/stream.d(390)
sambamba/slice.d(176): Error: undead.stream.Stream at /usr/include/d/undead/stream.d(390) conflicts with std.stream.Stream at /usr/lib/ldc/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/d/std/stream.d(390)
sambamba/slice.d(197): Error: undead.stream.Stream at /usr/include/d/undead/stream.d(390) conflicts with std.stream.Stream at /usr/lib/ldc/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/d/std/stream.d(390)
Makefile:19: recipe for target 'all' failed


Any idea what to do next?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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