[dmd-beta] dmd 2.063 beta 5

[Mike Wey]

On 05/24/2013 12:11 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> On 5/23/2013 2:29 PM, Mike Wey wrote:
>>
>> While the phobos makefile now builds libphobos2.so.0.63.0 and symlinks
>> libphobos2.so / libphobos2.so.0.63. The beta zip contains only
>> libphobos2.so, is that intentional?
>>
>
> Yes, it is intentional. Zip files can't contain symlinks, but I want
> people to have the zip file usable without having to manually create
> symlinks.  I expect the linux packager to set the name and symlinks.

Since the shared phobos lib has it's soname set to "libphobos2.so.0.63" 
when you link with libphobos2.so, at program start up it will be looking 
for libphobos2.so.0.63 which will fail.

-- 
Mike Wey