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[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 04-08-2012 10:35, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 18:56 +0200, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> On 03-08-2012 18:48, Russel Winder wrote:
> […]
>
>>> There is no Debian or Mint deb, is this just lack of resources or
>>> decision not to support anything other than Ubuntu?
>>
>> The .deb will work on Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. I can confirm the
>> latter two at least, and I know others use it on Debian.
>
> I have given up on Ubuntu, my machines now are usually Debian Unstable
> but can boot into Fedora 17. I just loaded up the deb on Debian Unstable
> and it does seem to work fine. Given that the executables are set up for
> dynamic linking this is rather surprising. Excellent, but surprising.
>
> Installing the 64-bit DMD deb does though pull in a world of GCC 32-bit
> stuff :-(
>

Yeah, that's because DMD has -m32 to cross-compile for 32-bit. It's a 
bit silly that it's not optional.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
alex at lycus.org
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