dmd.conf... again

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 15:22:39 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 14:05:57 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 13:46:24 UTC, wobbles wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 13:00:45 UTC, Atila Neves 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 12:40:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded the zip, added linux/bin64 to PATH, tried 
>>>> compiling a hello world and got:
>>>>
>>>> usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l:libphobos2.a
>>>>
>>>> That's when I started trying to set the configuration but 
>>>> nothing seems to work.
>>>>
>>>> Atila
>>>
>>> Have you run dmd from the directory you unzipped it to?
>>> libphobos2.a is in there I think, so ld wouldn't be able to 
>>> find it.
>>
>> Just did, didn't work. Tried it from lib64 and lib32 as well, 
>> nothing.
>>
>> Atila
>
> Hmm, I'll setup a VM later this evening to test, see if I can 
> figure it out. This really should be easier.

It really should. I straced it and it's trying to link to phobos 
with `-l:libphobos2.a`. I've never seen a colon in library 
options before and the (ancient) gcc on the system doesn't seem 
to like it one bit. I added a hand-compiled gcc 4.9 to my PATH 
and... it worked.

Atila