ldc and homebrew in macos

[Ervin Andrews]

On Friday, 11 July 2025 at 17:25:48 UTC, Gerardo Cahn wrote:
> A minor problem: when homebrew upgrades llvm in my macos (last 
> time, from 20.1.7 to 20.1.8), I need to manually change one 
> line in ldc2.conf so that ld doesn't complain; this file 
> (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ldc/1.41.0/etc/ldc2.conf) has a fixed 
> reference to  llvm:
> ...
>     lib-dirs = [
>         "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ldc/1.41.0/lib",
>         
> "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/llvm/20.1.8/lib/clang/20/lib/darwin", // 
> compiler-rt directory
>     ];
> ...
>
> Could something be negotiated so that llvm/homebrew scripts 
> create a symbolic link, allowing ldc2.conf to be less 
> version-specific?
>
> (I know this is more an llvm/homebrew issue, but at the end of 
> the day, ldc is affected)
>
> Tks/rgds,
>
> GlC

I’ve run into the same problem with ldc on macOS after LLVM 
upgrades via Homebrew.
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