LDC 1.1.0 released

[David Nadlinger via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 21:50:27 UTC, Sai wrote:
> I posted this in other thread, anything else that I can do 
> besides recompiling druntime/phobos?

This is actually a bug in the binary package, which I just added 
an issue for: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2008

Ubuntu 16.10 unfortunately broke forwards-compatibility for 
libraries and compilers, in the sense that they patched the 
linker to create position-independent executables by default. We 
decided to follow suit and make LDC default to 
position-independent code on Linux as well (which makes sense as 
it enables ASLR and friends). Thus, setting 
`-relocation-model=pic` doesn't change anything – as indicated in 
the error message, the problem is in the C parts of the standard 
library, not your D code.

This is because the packages are built on an older Ubuntu 
version, with the default C compiler settings – which of course 
implicitly default to non-PIC. We'll have to amend our build 
scripts and push out a new point release to fix this. I'm rather 
amazed that during six (!) beta versions, nobody tested the 
binaries on 16.10…

(DMD 2.071.2 and older was completely broken on 16.10 for this 
reason.)

  — David