dmd 1.067 and 2.052 release

[Stephan]

On 21.02.2011 12:34, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 21.02.2011 11:53, Stephan wrote:
>> On 18.02.2011 11:18, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Now with 64 bit Linux support! (Though expect problems with it, it's
>>> brand new.)
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.067.zip
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.052.zip
>>
>> Nice release in theorie but since i did not get the time to test the
>> beta it seems some regressions made it into the release that rendered
>> my codebase unbuildable...
>>
>> The problem is that i cannot reduce it properly. (win32, dmd 2.052)
>>
>> 1) Without changing anything suddenly i get linker errors. I am
>> building an executable linking in a static lib that contains some
>> methods using std.random.uniform. When i now try to build the
>> executable the linker complains about std.random.uniform not being
>> found. What the heck ? The whole rest of phobos is there and this is
>> missing ??
>>
>
> Having hit similar things earlier, I'll tell you my recipe. I usually
> rebuild *everything* step by step starting with and including all 3rd
> party D libraries with new dmd. And making sure nothing from old version
> sliped on the path. Yes, that's tiresome, especially when you haven't
> touch those libraries for quite a long time (assuming they are sort of
> stable).
>

I doubt that. That was the first thing i tried coming from a 
professional C++ work flow ;)


>> 2) This one is really weird. After removing all the std.random.uniform
>> crap from above it compiles and links but crashes right in the
>> beginning befor even entering my main method. This just happens in
>> debug builds. Funny thing is that this is not due to some unittest of
>> mine. And correct me if i am wrong but phobos is shipped without
>> unittests either, right ?
>>
>> Any help is welcome.
>> Stephan
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