[Poll] On Linux, what should we commonly use as sub-directory name for D?

[Marco Leise]

Am Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:35:22 +0100
schrieb Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com>:

> AFAIK you can't put shared libraries into a different folder.
> The runtime linker must be able to find the libraries so the folders
> have to be registered in ld.so.conf. But ld 'virtually merges' all
> directories so you still can't have libraries with the same name &
> version in different folders. There are some tricks (rpath,
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH) but this won't work well in a large scale scenario.

That explains why Haskell's Cabal is installing libraries with
compiler AND library version in the file name :-/
 
> In the end all D compilers have to produce ABI compatible
> shared libraries. The runtime implementation may be different, but the
> ABI has to match. Unfortunately ABI compatibility is still in a distant
> future but there's no other way to solve the library issue.

That would be helpful. In the meantime I'll read up on how
dynamic linking works and what options I have.

-- 
Marco