[Scons-dev] D tool test fail

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 16:39 -0800, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Russel,
> 
> I have a 32 bit ubuntu VM I've been using to work on these tests.
> On my 32 bit VM dmd does have 64 bit support built in, so adding -m64
> doesn't fail and the test fails.
> I did have to add the following:
> environment = Environment(
>     CFLAGS=['-m64'],
>     DLINKFLAGS=['-m64'],
>     DFLAGS=['-m64', '-O'])
> 
> Or I get link failures due to mixing 32 and 64 bit objects together and/or
> linking issues.
> 
> Seems like the best way to implement this would be something like
> TARGET_ARCH and let the tools figure out the right flags. That may come
> with revamped tools..
> 
> I have a strong preference to remove the -m64 altogether from these tests
> as likely any issue you had was due to some issue with the D compiler on
> the platform in question.
> I'm going to check such change and merge.
> 
> If we run into issues in the future where we can reconstruct the
> requirement for -m64 then we should add another text.


Let me cogitate on this a bit, and refer back to the original reporter.
But yes I am minded to remove this if possible given the problems.

More work is needed on the D tooling tests anyway…

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