Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-26 Thread Spacen Jasset
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: ...chop For us Linux DMD users a bug should be raised against dmd so that Walter will hopefully compile against an older glibc on future releases. As long as it doesn't cause weird problems. I have had weird

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-26 Thread Spacen Jasset
Walter Bright wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote: For us Linux DMD users a bug should be raised against dmd so that Walter will hopefully compile against an older glibc on future releases. Yet when I do that the other half of the linux users have a problem. Do you know what problems they had

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-23 Thread Spacen Jasset
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: You may have to statically link (which, of course, is not officially supported by glibc, for very stupid reasons). I am not sure that the reasons are stupid. It is similar, for example to kernel32.dll on windows,

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
Spacen Jasset wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: You may have to statically link (which, of course, is not officially supported by glibc, for very stupid reasons). I am not sure that the reasons are stupid. It is similar, for example to

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-23 Thread Walter Bright
Spacen Jasset wrote: For us Linux DMD users a bug should be raised against dmd so that Walter will hopefully compile against an older glibc on future releases. Yet when I do that the other half of the linux users have a problem.

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Frits van Bommel
dsimcha wrote: Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article dsimcha wrote: Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
dsimcha wrote Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Spacen Jasset
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: dsimcha wrote Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version