Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-26 Thread Spacen Jasset
Walter Bright wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote: For us Linux DMD users a bug should be raised against dmd so that Walter will hopefully compile against an older glibc on future releases. Yet when I do that the other half of the linux users have a problem. Do you know what problems they had Walter,

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-26 Thread Spacen Jasset
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: "Spacen Jasset" wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: ...chop For us Linux DMD users a bug should be raised against dmd so that Walter will hopefully compile against an older glibc on future releases. As long as it doesn't cause weird problems. I have had weird stu

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-23 Thread Walter Bright
Spacen Jasset wrote: For us Linux DMD users a bug should be raised against dmd so that Walter will hopefully compile against an older glibc on future releases. Yet when I do that the other half of the linux users have a problem.

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
"Spacen Jasset" wrote > Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> "Spacen Jasset" wrote >>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote: You may have to statically link (which, of course, is not officially supported by glibc, for very stupid reasons). >>> I am not sure that the reasons are "stupid". It is similar,

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-23 Thread Spacen Jasset
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: "Spacen Jasset" wrote Steven Schveighoffer wrote: You may have to statically link (which, of course, is not officially supported by glibc, for very stupid reasons). I am not sure that the reasons are "stupid". It is similar, for example to kernel32.dll on windows, w

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
"Spacen Jasset" wrote > Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> You may have to statically link (which, of course, is not officially >> supported by glibc, for very stupid reasons). > > I am not sure that the reasons are "stupid". It is similar, for example to > kernel32.dll on windows, which you cannot l

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Spacen Jasset
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: "dsimcha" wrote Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient versio

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
"dsimcha" wrote > Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, > and > worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient > version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster > that > has an ancient version of Linux that my s

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Spacen Jasset
dsimcha wrote: Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin doesn

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
dsimcha wrote: Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin doesn

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > dsimcha wrote: > > Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, > > and > > worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient > > version. The problem is that I'm try

Re: Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread Frits van Bommel
dsimcha wrote: Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin doesn

Glibc hell

2009-01-21 Thread dsimcha
Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient version. The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin doesn't want to upgrad