Linker error while building phobos on linux on a fresh system

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On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:46:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/25/14, 3:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Wonder what I'm doing wrong. I ran "git pull --ff-only origin 
>> master" in
>> dmd, druntime, and phobos. Built dmd -> fine. Built druntime 
>> -> fine.
>> Ran "make -f posix.mak" for phobos, got:
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2
>
> Argh, I had an old ~/dmd.conf. I've mentioned this before: our 
> build process should override all user options and only use its 
> own artifacts. I sent a diff a while ago adding an empty 
> dmd.conf to phobos/, but there was backlash about it that I 
> find unjustified.
>
> Andrei

It needs to be fixed on DMD side and not via Phobos workarounds 
in my opinion. For example, by ignoring -defaultlib flag if it 
can't be found and trying to link anyway.