Running dmd with older glibc

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> 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.

I actually think it is a link error, in that too high a version of libc (compared to what is needed) is linked in.

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