Well I'm progressing -slowly

[Ty Tower]

After analising the command line sent for a small example program I am trying to compile I have found that my dmd command is having trouble . Probably any one of you could have explained this had you trie a little harder .

Anyway here is the latest output

[tytower at linuxbox dwt-linux]$ dmd MyStuff/main.d
gcc main.o -o main -m32 -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

Now all of the libraries are and were there all the time , albeit in /usr/lib/  for the majority and in /lib/ for the libm,so.6 which is linked to libm-2.4.so.

In the error noted above however the "ld" cannot find it. Now without all the other extraneous b/s of versions etc , surely someone can suggest why this might be.

I have tried copying bth the libm file and link into /usr/lib to no avail.

If it seems like I am rude ,it is because I have been on this ,on and off for more than a week and I tend to call bullshit for what it is.