[dmd-beta] dmd 2.063 beta 5

[Walter Bright]

On 5/24/2013 2:10 PM, Mike Wey wrote:
> On 05/24/2013 12:11 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> On 5/23/2013 2:29 PM, Mike Wey wrote:
>>>
>>> While the phobos makefile now builds libphobos2.so.0.63.0 and symlinks
>>> libphobos2.so / libphobos2.so.0.63. The beta zip contains only
>>> libphobos2.so, is that intentional?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it is intentional. Zip files can't contain symlinks, but I want
>> people to have the zip file usable without having to manually create
>> symlinks.  I expect the linux packager to set the name and symlinks.
>
> Since the shared phobos lib has it's soname set to "libphobos2.so.0.63" when 
> you link with libphobos2.so, at program start up it will be looking for 
> libphobos2.so.0.63 which will fail.
>

What do you suggest? Considering that zip files don't have symlinks in them.