Manually linking druntime and phobos2

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:50:08 -0400, Michel Fortin  
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> When manually calling the linker, which libraries should be linked with  
> a d object file? If I run dmd with the -v option on Mac OS X, I notice  
> dmd issues the following linker command:
>
> gcc test.o -o test -m32 -Xlinker  
> -L/Library/Compilers/dmd2/osx/bin/../lib -lphobos2 -lpthread -lm
>
> which includes library phobos2 but not druntime. I've made D for Xcode  
> link both phobos2 and druntime in the final executable; this cause no  
> problem on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but I have a user on 10.5  
> (Leopard) who gets duplicate symbols in druntime and phobos2 because of  
> this.
>
> So now I wonder, is druntime included into the phobos2 library? Is this  
> how it should be?

This is what happens.  How should it be?  Does it matter?  Everything is  
linked statically anyways.  If it was a dynamic lib, then we need to  
address it.

What I find odd is that libdruntime.a is in the lib subdir even though  
it's never used.

-Steve