dmd 1.041 and 2.026 releases

[Walter Bright]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Ellery Newcomer (ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu)'s article
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> davesun wrote:
>>>> when can I use dmd on 64bit linux ?
>>>
>>> You can now - 32 bit executables work fine on 64 bit linux!
>> Maybe I should try it again sometime, but I ran into linker issues when
>> I tried using DMD on 64bit linux. Other than that, DMD worked fine.
> 
> Same here, but only on some installations of 64-bit Linux.  Others work fine.  I
> think the key is that you need the 32-bit version of GCC and all the libraries
> like libpthread, libgcc, libc, etc. available.  I've been nagging my sysadmin to
> install these, though it matters less for me now that I have the DMD source and
> was able to make DMD work on some other Linux boxes that it previously didn't work
> on for unrelated reasons.  If you have a bunch of Linux boxes around, you can also
> compile on one that has the 32-bit libs and copy the resulting binary over to one
> that doesn't, and it will usually work.

On Ubuntu64, which is my main linux dev machine, the following is necessary:

To compile 32 bit programs under ub64:
  sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386

To run 32 bit programs:
  sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
  sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

(After long bitter experience, I now keep notes on how to configure the 
machine after a fresh install <g>.)