Fails to build on Fedora 28 on ppc64

[Conan-Kudo]

I'm trying to build GlibD 2.0.2 on ppc64 for Fedora 28 using gir-to-d 0.18.0, and I'm getting the following error:

[1/332] ldc2 -Iglibd-2.0@sha -I. -I.. -Igenerated -I../generated -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -enable-color -release -w -g -O1 -relocation-model=pic   -of 'glibd-2.0@sha/ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu_generated_gtkd_Implement.d.o' -c ../ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu/generated/gtkd/Implement.d
FAILED: glibd-2.0@sha/ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu_generated_gtkd_Implement.d.o
ldc2 -Iglibd-2.0@sha -I. -I.. -Igenerated -I../generated -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -enable-color -release -w -g -O1 -relocation-model=pic   -of 'glibd-2.0@sha/ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu_generated_gtkd_Implement.d.o' -c ../ppc64-redhat-linux-gnu/generated/gtkd/Implement.d
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: basic type expected, not `private`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: no identifier for declarator `_error_`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: type only allowed if anonymous enum and no enum type
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: if type, there must be an initializer
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: found `private` when expecting `,`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: basic type expected, not `=`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: no identifier for declarator `_error_`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(173): Error: type only allowed if anonymous enum and no enum type
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: basic type expected, not `deprecated`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: no identifier for declarator `_error_`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: type only allowed if anonymous enum and no enum type
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: if type, there must be an initializer
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: found `deprecated` when expecting `,`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: basic type expected, not `=`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: no identifier for declarator `_error_`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(201): Error: type only allowed if anonymous enum and no enum type
generated/gobject/c/types.d(258): Error: basic type expected, not `deprecated`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(258): Error: no identifier for declarator `_error_`
generated/gobject/c/types.d(258): Error: type only allowed if anonymous enum and no enum type
generated/gobject/c/types.d(258): Error: if type, there must be an initializer

Any idea what's causing that?

[MikeWey]

Could you check line 173 of generated/gobject/c/types.d the enum members should all be upper case, but from the error it looks like that isn't the case for you.

And what version of ldc are you using?

[Conan-Kudo]

@MikeWey This is with LDC 1.8.0.

line 173:

        private = 32,

[Conan-Kudo]

It appears that all the enums are lower case.

[MikeWey]

It looks like ldc's support for ppc64 is broken, which is why the call to toUpper used by gir-to-d doesn't work.

ldc-developers/ldc#2410

[Conan-Kudo]

I see. 😢

[MikeWey]

You could try GDC if it's available.

[Conan-Kudo]

GDC unfortunately just became available for Fedora 30, since it was only just mainlined into GCC for GCC 9.

Debian had been patching in GDC into their GCC builds for years, but Fedora had not.

[Cogitri]

I don't think GDC can be used on ppc64 either since libgphobos doesn't build on ppc64(le) yet apparently