Migrating D front end to D - post Dconf

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 09:48:58 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 12 May 2013 10:39, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-05-12 05:50, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>
>>  That helps considerably, though if the compiler is old 
>> enough, that won't
>>> work
>>> for Linux due to glibc changes and whatnot.
>>>
>>
>> My experience is the other way around. Binaries built on newer 
>> version of
>> Linux doesn't work on older. But binaries built on older 
>> versions usually
>> works on newer versions.
>>
>> --
>> /Jacob Carlborg
>>
>
> Depends... statically linked binaries will probably always work 
> on the
> latest version, dynamic link and then you've got yourself a 
> 'this
> libstdc++v5 doesn't exist anymore' problem.

So surely we can just offer a full history of statically linked 
binaries, problem solved?