Running dmd with older glibc

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Johan Granberg
<lijat.meREM at ovegmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running into a problem installing dmd in the computer labs at my
> department. I don't have root access so I'm installing into my home
> directory and I had a working dmd 0.150 but I was in need of features
> introduced after that so I tried to install 1.038 instead.
>
> Now I'm getting
>
> dmd: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dmd)
>
> and by extension no working compiler.
>
> I found an old post describing the same problem but no solution. Does anyone
> have a solution to the above problem or should I give up the idea of using
> D for this project?
>
> (I have tried earlier to compile both ldc and gdc but without success)

I think DMD requires libc version 5, but don't quote me on that.