State of the union on arch linux......

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 16 July 2017 at 22:53:09 UTC, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently had to retire my ageing Ubuntu laptop and decided to 
> go for Arch as the OS of choice for its successor, since I was 
> quite sold on this 'rolling release' concept.
>
> My expectation was to have the latest, shiniest versions of the 
> three major D compilers at my fingertips but so far it looks 
> like the only compiler that works out of the box (*) is LDC.
>
> (*) works out of the box = can compile and run a simple 
> helloworld program.
>
> I checked out the snap package that Joseph spoke about at DCONF 
> 2017 but again it seems like only LDC has snap packages 
> available.

https://github.com/dlang-snaps/dmd.snap

> Is the state of affairs really this bad on Arch? Or is there a 
> HOWTO where I can get up and running with all three compilers?
>
> Cheers,
>
> A

See also: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/vjpawnhzfvxffvsiojuf@forum.dlang.org
tl;dr: The Arch developers recently switched to enforcing PIE and 
they didn't care about updating dmd (even though we pinged them).