Re: A valid code that won't run?

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 21:06:59 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

Typical example is when in specific distro library name 
includes major version number in the static library name, i.e. 
libcurl4.a

Isn't this very problem why pkg-config exists?

Another case is multilib paths, those are not uniform either (I 
add -L-L/usr/lib32 to default dmd.conf for it to work)

Yeah, I don't think they ever made it better at dealing with 
that; have to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  (But that's multilib for you.)

-Wyatt