On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 20:15:10 +0000 Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was looking at some of the PRs for DIPs and was wondering how > to go ahead and use them in my code. A few of the forum regulars > have mentioned applying their own patches before, and so I would > like to ask those of you that do, what your preferred method is, > or if this is an all-around bad idea and I should just wait for > the PRs to be merged? as for me, i have a build script for that. my directory structure looks like this: dmd_git dmd # cloned git repo of dmd druntime # clone git of runtime phobos # you got the idea tools # and this too BUILD # update and build scripts PATCHES # here they all! dmd druntime phobos tools build script in BUILD/ does `git reset --hard ; git clean -dxf` for all repos, and then applies *.patch files found in corresponding subdirs of PATHCES to corresponding components. it also does alphanumeric sorting of patch files, so i can control the order of applying. to temporarily disable some patch i can rename it to something like "abc.patch.no" (any extension, actually). also i'm adding some comments and dependencies to patch files. patch utility ignores that. my build script accept some args too: % ./build.sh -h --noreset -- don't do 'git reset --hard' --nopatch -- don't do patching --phobos -- build phobos --runtime -- build runtime --dmd -- build dmd --debug -- enable debug build --all -- build all (default) --cdgc -- build with CDGC this is not the best way to manage patches, it simply emerges from my simplistic build scripts as i was adding features over time. i also has 'install.sh' script, which installs fresh DMD into my local binary dir, writes proper dmd.conf, builds tools and copies them to the place where DMD binary is. and 'update.sh' script, which updates all components and writes update logs. update logs are just a snippets of 'git log' -- from the new HEAD till the old HEAD, so i can easily read what's new here while building fresh DMD in another terminal.
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