Re: dmd: can't build on Arch Linux or latest Ubuntu

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

Marco Leise wrote:

> Am Wed, 10 May 2017 20:59:33 +0300
> schrieb ketmar <ketmar at ketmar.no-ip.org>:
>
>>> On Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 11:51:03 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:  
>>>> I can't build dmd on Arch Linux anymore. I'm told it's because of a 
>>>> binutils update. Annoying.  
>>>
>> yeah, the great thing. i was hit by that bus too, and had to mutilate 
>> druntime to make unittests work again. lucky me, i'm using static 
>> phobos. don't even want to think about the scale of the disaster for 
>> people with libphobos2.so...
>
> O.O
>
> Like what will happen to us on Gentoo with libphobos2.so when
> binutils-2.8 moves to stable here? And can it all be solved by
> compiling with -fPIC, like is required for hardened
> installations anyways or are there dmd versions that flat out
> wont work any longer?

sorry, i don't know about PIC (not using it). otherwise, you won't be able 
to run anything with shared phobos: druntime conflict scanner will always 
find a conflict and abort (that is what happening with test_runner). at 
least 2.074 is affected. i "solved" it by commenting out druntime checker, 
but this cannot be used as a general solution, of course: the checker 
should be fixed. yet i don't know enough about elf and .so (and, tbh, i 
don't even *want* to dive there).

bugreport says that PIC is a working solution (i.e. binaries and libraries 
built with -fPIC should work). i didn't checked it, tho (not a big fan of 
PIC).