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[Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

In these days i worked in packaging ldc.

In the launchpad bzr of the group you can already find a revision which 
compiles quite good. This is the content of the package:

goshawk@earth:~/Documents/Projects/MOTU/ldc/d1$ dpkg -c  ldc_0.9-1_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/sbin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root       721 2009-03-30 20:32 ./usr/bin/ldc.conf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root       305 2009-03-30 20:32 ./usr/bin/ldc.rebuild.conf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root  12266952 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/bin/ldc
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/lib/
-rw-r--r-- root/root    742780 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/lib/libtango-base-ldc.a
-rw-r--r-- root/root   7084206 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/lib/libtango-user-ldc.a
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-03-30 20:35 ./usr/share/doc/ldc/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       279 2009-03-30 02:33 ./usr/share/doc/ldc/readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2304 2009-03-30 02:33 
./usr/share/doc/ldc/CMakeLists.txt.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     14815 2009-03-30 02:07 ./usr/share/doc/ldc/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root       154 2009-03-30 17:56 
./usr/share/doc/ldc/changelog.Debian.gz

As you can see, all the .conf should be moved in /etc/.  Arthur, do you think 
that putting them in /etc/ldc/ is the better choice?

What's missed to make ldc working away from the building environment is 
explained by the ldc config file:

default:
{
    // 'switches' holds array of string that are appends to the command line
    // arguments before they are parsed.
    switches = [
        "-I/home/goshawk/Documents/Projects/MOTU/ldc/d1/ldc-0.9/obj-x86_64-
linux-gnu/runtime/../tango",
        "-I/home/goshawk/Documents/Projects/MOTU/ldc/d1/ldc-0.9/obj-x86_64-
linux-gnu/runtime/../tango/lib/common",
        "-L-L/usr/lib",
        "-d-version=Tango",
        "-defaultlib=tango-base-ldc",
	"-L-ltango-user-ldc",
        "-debuglib=tango-base-ldc"
    ];
};

The missing point is the tango library that should be compiled for ldc IMHO.
I think that the best solution is to provide a libtango-ldc and libtango-ldc-
dev package to contain the .a and the .di files used by ldc.

Any comment or suggestions about it?


Best Regards.

See you. 
-- 
Vincenzo Ampolo
http://vincenzo-ampolo.net