DMD with older versions of Linux

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-04 02:05, Adam Davis wrote:
> Dreamhost doesn't provide an updated glibc in my vps server. Is it possible to
> run dmd on somewhat outdated linux distributions?
>
> I tried running dmd from the distribution but got:
>
> ./dmd: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by ./dmd)
>
> The instaled versions are:
>
> $ ldd --version
> ldd (GNU libc) 2.7
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux ps54363 2.6.33.7-vs2.3.0.36.30.4 #23 SMP Tue Sep 28 05:47:35 PDT 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> If it's not possible to run the standard DMD package, could I build it from
> source using those versions?
>
> Thank you

I've successfully built and used DMD on Ubuntu 6. I use it to produce 
linux binaries so my tools will run on older versions of linux. I think 
it worked on Ubuntu 4 as well, but I had other problems on that version.

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/Jacob Carlborg