== Quote from Spacen Jasset ([email protected])'s article > Spacen Jasset wrote: > > I am trying to build dmd such that it will work on older versions of > ...stuff > Given that there will be a book out in the fairly near future, and > people may therefore want to run dmd on GNU/Linux. Perhaps bug #2607 > would be useful to fix. That is; ensure that dmd will run on a > respectable set of GNU/linux versions easily. (and perhaps this applies > to FreeBSD too)
I'm forced to use Linux caveman edition (kernel 2.6.8 or something) on some of the computers I deal with for my research because my sysadmin refuses to upgrade. Before DMD came with buildable source this was problematic because I was constantly searching for one of the few nodes that DMD would run on. However, now I don't see it as much of a problem, as it takes approximately 2 minutes to just compile from source. Furthermore, I think I asked Walter about this back when it was still a problem and he said changing the glibc version would break people with a newer version.
