On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:59:26PM +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 23:27:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 03:28:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > > On 11/19/2016 3:03 PM, deadalnix wrote: > > > > A lot of users are reporting errors on debian and ubuntu. .o > > > > generated by dmd do not link and libphobos.a is unusable. > > > > > > > > This is very bad and we should consider a hotfix. Is someone on > > > > it ? > > > > > > Bugzilla numbers? > > > > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16794 (links to other bugs > > included in report) > > I don't think compiling everything as PIC is an appropriate way to go. > > Still, I find myself unable to use D at all on my debian boxes.
Well, until DMD supports PIE (which if I understand correctly is a subset of PIC), there seems to be no easy way around this debacle. The other alternative is to make dmd invoke gcc with -no-pie when linking. Is there an easy way to do this? T -- An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. -- Robert Heinlein