Error after installing DMD v2.063

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Jun 2 17:47:18 PDT 2013


On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:43:20 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 05:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:24:47 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> >> On 06/02/2013 05:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >>> On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:08:41 Walter Bright wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Regardless, the symlink issue alone shows that using the zip file format
> >>> for *nix is a mistake. Any packages released for *nix needs to support
> >>> symlinks correctly.
> >>> 
> >>> - Jonathan M Davis
> >> 
> >> Is it so hard to convert the zip to tarball in the installer scripts?
> >> 
> >> (hint: no)
> > 
> > But unless the zip itself is fixed, then anyone downloading it is going to
> > end up with a screwed up *nix setup unless they fix it themselves. It
> > would be far better to just fix the zip.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> wouldn't they have a screwed up setup with a tarball as well? They'd
> still need to fix $PATH and whatever you need to fix to make -lphobos2 work.

All you should have to do is set the PATH so that it has dmd in it. Everything 
else should just work.

- Jonathan M Davis


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