LDC 0.15.0 alpha1 released! Please help test!

[David Nadlinger via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On 5 Nov 2014, at 17:32, Steve via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> I have an up-to-date version of Crunchbang running on a Thinkpad R52.  
> Starting with version 0.13, I get
>
> ldc2: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.18' 
> not found (required by ldc2)
> ldc2: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' 
> not found (required by ldc2)
>
> when trying to run the binary images.  This keeps me at 0.12.

Seems like your libc is older than the one the binary packages were 
built against.

Kai has been building the release packages since I handed over 
maintainership to him, but generally our strategy is to build them on 
the second-to-last Ubuntu LTS release. Right now, this is 12.04, which 
over 2.5 years old at this point. Generally, we've found this to be 
enough for the vast majority of users to be able to just use the binary 
releases. If you want to use it on an older system, you can always 
compile it from source yourself.

By the way, thanks to Konstantinos are now Debian packages for LDC. I've 
no idea how feasible it is to backport them to whatever Crunchbang is 
using, but it might simplify things.

Regards,
David