Arch Linux ldc package can't use asan

[Johan Engelen]

On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 at 17:54:11 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 at 15:27:56 UTC, Wild wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 at 15:19:37 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>>> I don't know who's the current maintainer of the Arch Linux D 
>>> packages. ldc1.7.0 from the Arch repositories doesn't work 
>>> with -fsanitize=address right now, it fails to link. I 
>>> originally filed an ldc bug here:
>>
>> I will look into this.
>>
>> - Dan / The maintainer
>
> Thanks. The official package ships with a renamed copy of the 
> LLVM compiler-rt library (matching the LLVM version LDC was 
> built with), libldc_rt.asan-x86_64.a. If a copy is out of the 
> question, a dependency on the package containing that lib 
> (original name: libclang_rt.asan-x86_64.a) and a symlink may do 
> the job.
> libFuzzer is handled like this as well. See 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/v1.7.0/CMakeLists.txt#L742-L795.

Extra info:
LDC should also recognize the libclang_rt.asan and 
libclang_rt.fuzzer libraries if they are in the same path where 
LDC would try to find the libldc copies. So the symlink is not 
even necessary in that case.

-Johan