-m64 doesn't work?

[Michel Fortin]

On Sunday, 12 February 2012 at 08:26:07 UTC, Andre Tampubolon 
wrote:

>  |-lib32 (libdruntime-linux32.a and libphobos.a)
>  |-lib64 (libdruntime-linux64.a and libphobos.a)

... Are you sure it's libphobos.a and not libphobos2.a?

> dmd -32 works fine. But either dmd or dmd -m64 doesn't work, 
> e.g:
> $ dmd -m64 einstein2b.d
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible 
> /opt/dmd-dev/lib32//libphobos2.a when searching for -lphobos2
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
>
> I wonder why ld searches at /opt/dmd-dev/lib32, whereas it 
> should be /opt/dmd-dev/lib64 ?

Actually it searches both directories all the time because 
dmd.conf adds the two to the link path. The theory is that the 
linker should just discard the wrong one.

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