Migrating D front end to D - post Dconf

[Iain Buclaw]

On 12 May 2013 11:39, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

The historical quirk of binary compatibility on Linux is OT to the problem
I questioned, so no.


-- 
Iain Buclaw

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