What is going on with the ubuntu/debian debacle ?

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 25 16:58:10 PST 2016


On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:59:26PM +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 23:27:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 03:28:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > > On 11/19/2016 3:03 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> > > > A lot of users are reporting errors on debian and ubuntu. .o
> > > > generated by dmd do not link and libphobos.a is unusable.
> > > > 
> > > > This is very bad and we should consider a hotfix. Is someone on
> > > > it ?
> > > 
> > > Bugzilla numbers?
> > 
> > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16794  (links to other bugs
> > included in report)
> 
> I don't think compiling everything as PIC is an appropriate way to go.
> 
> Still, I find myself unable to use D at all on my debian boxes.

Well, until DMD supports PIE (which if I understand correctly is a
subset of PIC), there seems to be no easy way around this debacle.

The other alternative is to make dmd invoke gcc with -no-pie when
linking.  Is there an easy way to do this?


T

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