std.net.curl and libcurl.so

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 19:42:11 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 19:27:31 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>> Further to earlier remarks: I now think this may be a general 
>> problem of LDC 1.0.0 and not a problem of the snap package.
>>
>> I tried building my simple curl-using program using an LDC 
>> 1.0.0 build and installed from source in the standard cmake && 
>> make && make install fashion.  The same segfault occurs.
>
> More on this: ldc 0.17.1 (the version packaged with Ubuntu 
> 16.04) is based on dmd 2.068.2, which still linked against 
> libcurl.  It's only from v2.069.0+ that libcurl is loaded 
> dynamically:
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html#curl-dynamic-loading
>
> ldc 1.0.0 is based on 2.070.2.

Downloaded a pre-built copy of ldc 1.0.0 from here (I used the 
Linux x86_64 tarball):
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.0.0

... and this runs my little curl-based program without any 
trouble.  Maybe something about how the build was carried out?