/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2

[ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 21 March 2016 at 10:46:27 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 21.03.2016 11:19, ZombineDev wrote:
>
>> DFLAGS=-I~/dev/repos/dlang/druntime/import 
>> -I~/dev/repos/dlang/phobos
>> -L-L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
> [...]
>> Linking...
>> ...
>> /usr/bin/ld {other stuff...}
>> -L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64 -lphobos2
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2
>>
>> However
>> $ ls 
>> /home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
>> etc  libphobos2.a  libphobos2.so  libphobos2.so.0.70
>> libphobos2.so.0.70.0  libphobos2.so.0.70.o
>>
>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Asterisk expansion is a shell feature. dmd probably doesn't go 
> through a shell when running ld.
>
> Even if it did, no expansion would be done there, because the 
> word is looked at as a whole. With the leading "-L", the 
> pattern doesn't match an actual path. For example, compare 
> `echo /*` with `echo -L/*`.
>
> You have to spell the different paths out.

Thanks a lot! I replaced "*" with the name of my OS and it all 
works!
I thought that if it could replace $HOME, it ought to replace the 
asterisk.
Probably I should add this caveat to 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Running_Independent_Programs for future reference.