more fun with ubuntu

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 05/26/2013 07:55 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 05:01:10 UTC, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> I have a project here which fails on link on ubuntu 12.10.
>>
>> It give undefined reference errors for functions in libdl and libutil.
>> For some reason, ld won't cooperate unless you pass -ldl -lutil at the
>> end of the command string. Holy Ubuntu!
>>
>> I can't seem to get dmd to do this though. Any suggestions?
>>
>> I am using the beta, but apparently this is a thing with ubuntu.
>
> It is not uncommon to request the libraries needed to build your app.
> Dmd passes a couple/one for phobos dependencies, but other libraries
> need to be reqested.

I am doing that.

I think the problem is libpython2.7.a requires libdl and libutil, and ld 
requires -ldl and -lutil be positioned after libpython2.7.a, but dmd 
very stubbornly arranges them before libpython2.7.a in the call to gcc.