dmd and Archlinux

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 9 12:57:55 PDT 2017


On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 19:33:45 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 19:21:48 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 18:35:09 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> I think the Arch Linux TUs are in the process of enabling 
>> -fPIC by default, see e.g. [1] - it might be releated to this?
>> In any case - building dmd/druntime/phobos with -fPIC enabled 
>> is a good idea and since 2.072.2 the official releases do so. 
>> Not sure why it's not done on Arch, maybe because Dicebot 
>> stepped down as maintainer? (see [2, 3]).
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2017-July/028918.html
>> [2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/o6fbbu$1qli$1@digitalmars.com
>> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/post/o6sldo$1pad$1@digitalmars.com
>
> Hi Seb!
>
> I think you are right. Official releases (the ones downloaded 
> from dlang.org via curl) work for me.
>
> A. Corbi


Maybe phobos/5586 [1] helps us. Of course the package would need 
to be rebuilt by the Arch Linux maintainers. Something I am not 
sure whether they are interested - the packages are orphaned and 
flagged out-of-date since more than a month [2]. Maybe you have 
an idea?

[1] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5586
[2] 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ppyeysvwmgjpchazuuwk@forum.dlang.org


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