I wanted to use dmd at another site, so I took my laptop and the latest
dmd 2 zip.
All went well, till I ran dmd, and got an error message about it needing
a newer libc, I had only libc-2.3.5.so on a Fedora version from 2005.
I thought some expletives about software vendors always compiling their
products on the absolutely latest OS version, thus introducing
gratuitous dependencies on brand-new libraries, where most often they
could compile with a 5 year old version, and make clients happy.
But, thanks to Walter, /I had the source/, so I compiled dmd from
scratch. I got a surprise when I tried to use it. Errors I can't figure out:
$ cat foo.d
import std.stdio;
void main(){}
$ dmd foo.d
/home/georg/lang/d/dmd/linux/bin/../../src/phobos/std/traits.d(855):
template instance isStaticArray!(const(int)[]) does not match template
declaration isStaticArray(T : U[N],U,uint N)
/home/georg/lang/d/dmd/linux/bin/../../src/phobos/std/traits.d(855):
Error: expression isStaticArray!(const(int)[]) of type void does not
have a boolean value
/home/georg/lang/d/dmd/linux/bin/../../src/phobos/std/traits.d(855):
static assert (!isStaticArray!(const(int)[])) is not evaluatable at
compile time
$
Interestingly, on Fedora 10, I can recompile dmd and actually use it.
What should I do?
