LDC 0.15.0 alpha1 released! Please help test!

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Thursday, 6 November 2014 at 20:29:53 UTC, David Nadlinger via 
digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> On 5 Nov 2014, at 17:32, Steve via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
>> I have an up-to-date version of Crunchbang running on a 
>> Thinkpad R52.  Starting with version 0.13, I get
>>
>> ldc2: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version 
>> `GLIBCXX_3.4.18' not found (required by ldc2)
>> ldc2: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version 
>> `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ldc2)
>>
> Kai has been building the release packages since I handed over 
> maintainership to him, but generally our strategy is to build 
> them on the second-to-last Ubuntu LTS release. Right now, this 
> is 12.04, which over 2.5 years old at this point. Generally, 
> we've found this to be enough for the vast majority of users to 
> be able to just use the binary releases. If you want to use it 
> on an older system, you can always compile it from source 
> yourself.

I am building the binaries on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. The mentioned 
libstdc++ version is indeed used.
Starting with release 0.1.50, the only difference to a vanilla 
12.04 LTS is the backported gcc 4.8.1 which is required to 
compile LLVM 3.5+

Regards,
Kai