trouble building gdc-0.23

[Neal Becker]

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> I'm having trouble trying to build gdc-0.23 on x86_64 (fc6).  I need to
>> do this to get libgphobos built with -fPIC.
> [...]
>> That 'GCC_4.2.0' sounds suspicious.  I'm guessing it picked up the system
>> gcc and libstdc++ instead of the one from the build tree.
>> 
>> What did I do wrong?
> 
> It seems to have built OK on Fedora Core 5, so maybe your
> system compiler is too new to support building GDC with ?
> 
> "An existing C++ compiler (even if you use make bootstrap)."
> seems to indicate it will use the system libstdc++, but it
> would be nice to have this clarified... (and perhaps lifted,
> if you build the C++ language in addition to just C and D ?)
> 
> Otherwise I guess we'll just have to wait for GCC 4.2 support.
> 
> --anders

Darn.  If someone would build gdc-0.23 on linux x86_64 with -fPIC
libgphobos, I wouldn't have to go through this.