on one ubuntu64 box (ubuntu 12.04) (call it A), compiling from source (from dmd.2.064.2.zip and following http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html), I get:
$cd src/dmd $make -f posix.mak -j8 *fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git* #but compiles ok $cd ../druntime $make -f posix.mak -j8 DMD=../dmd/dmd #ok... $cd ../phobos $make -f posix.mak -j8 DMD=../dmd/dmd *awk: cannot open ../dmd/VERSION (No such file or directory) *#repeated several times The 'crc32' module has been scheduled for *deprecation*. Please use 'std.digest.crc' instead. std.md5 is scheduled for *deprecation*. Please use std.digest.md instead and indeed, VERSION is in ../VERSION, not ../dmd/VERSION on another ubuntu64 box (call it B), I cannot even compile from source unless I pass DEBUG=1 flag; without DEBUG=1 I get (after cleaning up everything): $cd src/dmd $make -f posix.mak -j8 #ok till this point $cd ../druntime $make -f posix.mak -j8 DMD=../dmd/dmd ../dmd/dmd -lib -oflib/libdruntime-linuxdefault.a -Xfdruntime.json ...#etc *** *buffer overflow detected* ***: ../dmd/dmd terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #also shows those symbols: __fortify_fail _IO_default_xsputn _IO_vfprintf __vsprintf_chk __sprintf_chk ../dmd/dmd __libc_start_main ../dmd/dmd ======= Memory map: ======== I get the same from git master. with DEBUG=1 it works (but with same quirks as above)