Hi Iain, > This patch removes the disabling of libphobos when the Solaris/x86 > assembler is being used. > > Since r11-6373, D symbols are now compressed using back references, this > helped reduce the average symbol length by a factor of about 3, while > the longest symbol shrank from 416133 to 1142 characters. So the issues > that were seen on Solaris/x86 should no longer be a problem. > > However, I have only used x86_64-apple-darwin10 for testing, as > libphobos couldn't be built on that target for the same reason, except > it was the system linker segfaulting due to long symbol names. > > It would be good to know if Solaris has also benefitted from the change.
great, thanks. I'll give this a whirl once today's regular bootstraps have finished. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University