[Issue 10710] shared phobos library doesn't work on all linux distributions

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10710



--- Comment #29 from Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu> 2013-10-15 11:48:30 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> Walter, the solution is very simple - build the Fedora RPM on Fedora. Simple as
> that. We can ask Alex to give us access to his Fedora box (I think it is a
> virtual machine) and build the RPM there.
> 
> The best option, and I personally like this one the most, is to submit DMD to
> Fedora, and make it in the official Fedora repository. I can volunteer to do
> this, although it will take some time because I do not have any Fedora RPMs
> submitted so Fedora people may be skeptical about my RPM skills at first...
> 

These two require the same action, overhauling the build mechanism.
As discussed here http://forum.dlang.org/post/525B68A7.1090609@puremagic.com we
likely won't get there until 2.065.

> Another option is to change the SPEC file and make it explicitly depend on the
> gnutls RPM (there is gnutls RPM in Fedora!). This will indirectly force user to
> install curl that is linked against gnutls. curl RPM package from Fedora
> repository can be re-built with gnutls as default TLS library.

This sounds like the way to go for this release. I'll take care of this.

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