internal error toObjFile()

[Jay Dresser]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Jay Dresser wrote:
>> Since I'm a newbie, I thought I'd ask here before submitting a bug 
>> report.  Maybe I'm doing something stupid.
>>
>> I just installed and started playing this week.  I have tried dmd and 
>> gdc (gdmd) and I apparently cannot use dmd as I am on a amd64 
>> (Opteron) Ubuntu platform.  dmd can't handle the 64bit world yet, so 
>> I'm stuck with gdc.
> 
> DMD works just fine in a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit Ubuntu. The Ubuntu 
> forums have a thread (I think it's 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575) explaining how to set 
> this up. Be sure to install 32-bit gcc etc. in the chroot environment.

Thanks but I don't think I want to bother with the trouble of chroot. 
I'll use gdc until dmd is ready to use.

>> I wanted to do something with popen() so I took some code I found on 
>> the newsgroups here for popen.d and compile it into my library.  It 
>> will compile with dmd, but then the main program won't link with it if 
>> the main program is from gdc (that's expected, right?).
>>
>> So when I compile it with gdmd I get this:
>>
>> gdmd -c -I/home/jay/Ddev/src/phobos -I/home/jay/Ddev/src/phobos/std 
>> -L-L/home/jay/Ddev/lib popen.d
>> cc1d: ../../gcc-4.1.1/gcc/d/dmd/toobj.c:417: virtual void 
>> ClassDeclaration::toObjFile(): Assertion `classinfo->structsize == 
>> CLASSINFO_SIZE' failed.
>> popen.d:97: internal compiler error: Aborted
> [snip]
> 
> Looks like you're using the wrong version of Phobos with your gdmd. 
> (Likely DMD's version)
> I'm pretty sure you shouldn't need to specify include paths for phobos, 
> GDC should know where gphobos (the version of Phobos it comes with) is 
> installed.

 From the file
gdc-0.23-x86_64-linux-gcc-4.1.1.tar.bz2
I am using
lib64/libgphobos.a.

Which one should I be using?

--J