After analising the command line sent for a small example program I am trying to compile I have found that my dmd command is having trouble . Probably any one of you could have explained this had you trie a little harder .

Anyway here is the latest output

[tytower@linuxbox dwt-linux]$ dmd MyStuff/main.d
gcc main.o -o main -m32 -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

Now all of the libraries are and were there all the time , albeit in /usr/lib/  for the majority and in /lib/ for the libm,so.6 which is linked to libm-2.4.so.

In the error noted above however the "ld" cannot find it. Now without all the other extraneous b/s of versions etc , surely someone can suggest why this might be.

I have tried copying bth the libm file and link into /usr/lib to no avail.

If it seems like I am rude ,it is because I have been on this ,on and off for more than a week and I tend to call bullshit for what it is.

Hi Ty,

Have you got the static variants of those libraries installed? (i.e. libm.a)  Seems you are doing a static link using dynamic libraries..

On Debian, these are found in package "libc6-dev", other distros will have them elsewhere.


David.

On 2/18/08, Ty Tower <tytower@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
> After analising the command line sent for a small example program I am trying to compile I have found that my dmd command is having trouble . Probably any one of you could have explained this had you trie a little harder .
>
> Anyway here is the latest output
>
> [tytower@linuxbox dwt-linux]$ dmd MyStuff/main.d
> gcc main.o -o main -m32 -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
>
> Now all of the libraries are and were there all the time , albeit in /usr/lib/  for the majority and in /lib/ for the libm,so.6 which is linked to libm-2.4.so.
>
> In the error noted above however the "ld" cannot find it. Now without all the other extraneous b/s of versions etc , surely someone can suggest why this might be.
>
> I have tried copying bth the libm file and link into /usr/lib to no avail.
>
> If it seems like I am rude ,it is because I have been on this ,on and off for more than a week and I tend to call bullshit for what it is.
>
>
>

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:31:58 -0500, Ty Tower wrote:

> After analising the command line sent for a small example program I am trying to compile I have found that my dmd command is having trouble . Probably any one of you could have explained this had you trie a little harder .
> 
> Anyway here is the latest output
> 
> [tytower@linuxbox dwt-linux]$ dmd MyStuff/main.d gcc main.o -o main -m32
> -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread
> -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
> 
> Now all of the libraries are and were there all the time , albeit in /usr/lib/  for the majority and in /lib/ for the libm,so.6 which is linked to libm-2.4.so.
> 
> In the error noted above however the "ld" cannot find it. Now without all the other extraneous b/s of versions etc , surely someone can suggest why this might be.
> 
> I have tried copying bth the libm file and link into /usr/lib to no avail.
> 
> If it seems like I am rude ,it is because I have been on this ,on and off for more than a week and I tend to call bullshit for what it is.

Ty Tower,
I am sorry to say that I do not see how you could be progressing -slowly.
You see I just looked through all of your other compile errors, and not
one was having a problem finding -lm. This tells me that instead of
progressing forward, your doing it backwards.

I do commend you for taking to the time to understand what the linker is doing and trying to figure out what you don't understand. (Your post was much more concise and polite in d.learn).

To recap:
[tytower@linuxbox import]$ dmd ./test_gridlayout.d
/usr/bin/../src/phobos/std/c/windows/windows.d(12): static assert  is
false

Wrong DWT



dwt/dwtexamples/helloworld/HelloWorld1 -m32 -Xlinker --start-group
-lphobos -lcairo -lglib-2.0 -ldl -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lpango-1.0
-lXfixes -lX11 -lXdamage -lXcomposite -lXcursor -lXrandr -lXi -lXinerama
-lXrender -lXext -lXtst -lfontconfig -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgthread-2.0
-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -Xlinker -L./
-Xlinker -L/usr/lib/ -Xlinker -L/usr/lib -Xlinker -L/root/d/lib -Xlinker
-L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltangobos -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib
-ltango-user-dmd -ltangobos -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x0):
multiple definition of `MAP_FAILED'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.sys.mman.o.data+0x1c): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x4):
multiple definition of `FD_SETSIZE'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.sys.select.o.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0xc):
multiple definition of `RTLD_NOW'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.dlfcn.o.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x10):
multiple definition of `_SIGSET_NWORDS'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.signal.o.data+0x40): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXdamage
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

conflicting tango and phobos



/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x0):
multiple definition of `MAP_FAILED'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.sys.mman.o.data+0x1c): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x4):
multiple definition of `FD_SETSIZE'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.sys.select.o.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0xc):
multiple definition of `RTLD_NOW'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.dlfcn.o.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x10):
multiple definition of `_SIGSET_NWORDS'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.signal.o.data+0x40): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXdamage
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Conflicting tango and Phobos



d/lib -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltangobos -Xlinker
-L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltangobos -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread
-lm
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x0):
multiple definition of `MAP_FAILED'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.sys.mman.o.data+0x1c): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x4):
multiple definition of `FD_SETSIZE'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.sys.select.o.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0xc):
multiple definition of `RTLD_NOW'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.dlfcn.o.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../libphobos.a
(linux.o).data+0x10):
multiple definition of `_SIGSET_NWORDS'
dsss_objs/D/tango.stdc.posix.signal.o.data+0x40): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXdamage
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Conflicting tango and phobos, yes these end with cannot find -lXdamage, on problem can propagate another. (Life of a programmer)



[tytower@linuxbox dwt-linux]$ dmd main.d gcc main.o -o main -m32 -Xlinker
-L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm
main.o.data+0x38): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets7Display12__ModuleInfoZ' main.o.data+0x3c): undefined
reference to `_D3dwt7widgets5Shell12__ModuleInfoZ' main.o: In function
`_Dmain':
main.d.text._Dmain+0x8): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets7Display7Display7__ClassZ' main.d.text._Dmain+0x13):
undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets7Display7Display5_ctorMFZC3dwt7widgets7Display7Display'
main.d.text._Dmain+0x1b): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets5Shell5Shell7__ClassZ' main.d.text._Dmain+0x29):
undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets5Shell5Shell5_ctorMFC3dwt7widgets7Display7DisplayZC3dwt7widgets5Shell5Shell'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Could not find reference to needed libraries, you used dmd instead of dsss or rebuild, so the proper -l flags were not added.



[tytower@linuxbox dwt-linux]$ dmd MyStuff/main.d gcc main.o -o main -m32
-Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm
main.o.data+0x38): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets7Display12__ModuleInfoZ' main.o.data+0x3c): undefined
reference to `_D3dwt7widgets5Shell12__ModuleInfoZ' main.o: In function
`_Dmain':
MyStuff/main.d.text._Dmain+0x8): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets7Display7Display7__ClassZ'
MyStuff/main.d.text._Dmain+0x13): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets7Display7Display5_ctorMFZC3dwt7widgets7Display7Display'
MyStuff/main.d.text._Dmain+0x1b): undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets5Shell5Shell7__ClassZ' MyStuff/main.d.text._Dmain+0x29):
undefined reference to
`_D3dwt7widgets5Shell5Shell5_ctorMFC3dwt7widgets7Display7DisplayZC3dwt7widgets5Shell5Shell'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Exactly the same as the last one, no change in operation what-so-ever.



Now had -lm been missing everything would have stopped where you currently are stuck. So please don't claim BS, don't disregard are statements of improper versions. Surprisingly I'm still willing to help, but only if this ignorant bashing of help stops. You may not even want my help anymore, but I don't think anyone will be helping you if you continue with your current methods.

Jesse I'll have a look at what you have said however plaease take note - this is exactly what I am saying ;  You post without thinking

As I am finding ,understanding and correcting problems in my command line the compiler is getting further and further through before throwing in the towel.  The output therefore changes. I beleive I am now on the last of it and the next post offers me a course of investigation whereas your post wants to knock -as have most of your posts.

David Wilson Wrote:

> Hi Ty,
> 
> Have you got the static variants of those libraries installed? (i.e. libm.a)  Seems you are doing a static link using dynamic libraries..
> 
> On Debian, these are found in package "libc6-dev", other distros will have them elsewhere.
> 
> 
> David.

Thanks David . No I have  only the .so. version. I am  intrigued by your comment that I am doing a static link using dynamic libraries . Can you expand on that please .
How would the command line change to use dynamic libraries?
Rather than do a lot of typing can you point me to a site that explains the difference ?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:22:45 -0500, Ty Tower wrote:

> Jesse I'll have a look at what you have said however plaease take note - this is exactly what I am saying ;  You post without thinking
> 
> As I am finding ,understanding and correcting problems in my command line the compiler is getting further and further through before throwing in the towel.  The output therefore changes. I beleive I am now on the last of it and the next post offers me a course of investigation whereas your post wants to knock -as have most of your posts.

I am confused on your accusation here, are you saying that my posts have no thought because I don't read your posts? If that is your claim it is a lie, as I have read ever post of yours and every post replying to your posts. Not only that, but I have compared my own knowledge with those responses to see if anything needed corrected or added. I have even taken time to see how accurate your accusations have been. I feel I have put a lot of thought into my posts.

As stated before, your last posted problem is not a step forward. Running into an inability find a needed linked file is at the first stages of linking. Your other problems had already gone past this stage and run into duplicate definitions.

The last think you bring up is that most of my posts have been to "knock" yours. This first group has been purely help:

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=623

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=636

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=681

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=722


Then we have the group of informative and "knocking," the last on starting with help, but mostly explaining way we made suggestions, after having been accused of not putting thoughts into our posts.

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=662

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=733


This final group has provided you with no help, but instead trying to demonstrate that your frustration with our help has been related own misunderstanding of the problem and not ours.

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=740

And of course this Current post.


These post have come about not because of your still needing help, or creating new problems, but because of your continued hostility to those that have already provided you with help. As I do not want to be accused of not thinking I will have to explain way said line is hostile:

"Probably any one of you could have explained this had you trie a little harder ."

You say we just needed to try a little harder. This would suggest that if we looked at the output from your command we could have explained why you might have been missing -lm. This conclusion is supported by the added:

"Now without all the other extraneous b/s of versions etc , surely someone can suggest why this might be."

Now had you politely return here with this new problem requesting help, I would have seen no reason to have corrected you incorrect accusation. I set for to correct this by providing all of the output you gave us, to show you that at no point did a problem with -lm show up. I ask how does that not show thought?

In final hopes of resolution, you will note that only with this post have I hit the 50/50 mark for hostile postings. I suppose to round this off as hostile, I could through in the hostile postings you have had, but I did not see that as the purpose of this posting.

David Wilson wrote:
> Hi Ty,
> 
> Have you got the static variants of those libraries installed? (i.e.
> libm.a)  Seems you are doing a static link using dynamic libraries..
> 
> On Debian, these are found in package "libc6-dev", other distros will
> have them elsewhere.
> 
> 
> David.
> 


On Linux, linking is exactly the same for static and dynamic libraries.  This is one of the advantages of the linux system.  There is no dll or import library complexity to deal with as there is on Windows.

The difference with the developer packages is that they usually supply both the static and dynamic libs without the postfix version numbers, They also supply the necessary C headers and documentation.

Some Linux distributions include the developer versions of the libraries by default.  Other distributions do not.  Ty might have to download these libs to get things working... which would explain a lot of the problems he's been having.

I notice also that the command line error complained "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm"  which is odd.  It seems to be not interpreting the commandline flag: I would expect it to say "cannot find libm.a (or libm.so).  But I'm not certain.  Nonetheless the compiler is looking for the the non-version decorated libm and cannot find it.

Incidentally, libm is the default math library on linux.  Most linux should have it installed.  The developer lib package may be necessary to access this library directly, but even then one could access the non-developer version simply by making a symbolic link to the versioned one in the lib directory where it resides.  Or one could even provide the full path the the versioned library on the command line to achieve the same thing.

But instead of fiddling with the system, the user should just download the necessary developer version of these libraries.

Part of these problems seem to be that Ty is unfamiliar with linux, or, at least, linux development.  If this is the case, there is a LOT more to help out with then just dmd/dwt related issues.  Linux is not an easy system to learn to program on since there are many tools with which to get familiar. Thus, we must assume, to some extent, that the dwt user has some familiarity with the system he develops on.  It would horribly time-consuming otherwise to have to step the user through platform development peculiarities and linux administration.

Thankfully, we don't have to do that... since there appears to be an amazing supply of very accommodating and knowledgeable people here.  But I do think it is unfair to assume we owe such a user all our time and attention for such details.

-JJR

Ty Tower wrote:
> Up yours =Don't bother posting answers to my queries again
> 
> I will immediately skip them--   Clown

Really uncalled for.  Next time you want help, you might try being polite.

--bb

John Reimer Wrote:
> On Linux, linking is exactly the same for static and dynamic libraries.
>   This is one of the advantages of the linux system.  There is no dll or
> import library complexity to deal with as there is on Windows.
> 
> The difference with the developer packages is that they usually supply both the static and dynamic libs without the postfix version numbers, They also supply the necessary C headers and documentation.
> 
> Some Linux distributions include the developer versions of the libraries by default.  Other distributions do not.  Ty might have to download these libs to get things working... which would explain a lot of the problems he's been having.
> 
My distro is Mandriva 2007 spring and I have the developer packages installed.
As I said the libraries are there under the name of /lib/libm-2.4.so , and linked  to it is  libm.so.6



> I notice also that the command line error complained "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm"  which is odd.  It seems to be not interpreting the commandline flag: I would expect it to say "cannot find libm.a (or libm.so).  But I'm not certain.  Nonetheless the compiler is looking for the the non-version decorated libm and cannot find it.
> 
> Incidentally, libm is the default math library on linux.  Most linux should have it installed.  The developer lib package may be necessary to access this library directly, but even then one could access the non-developer version simply by making a symbolic link to the versioned one in the lib directory where it resides.  Or one could even provide the full path the the versioned library on the command line to achieve the same thing.
> 
> But instead of fiddling with the system, the user should just download the necessary developer version of these libraries.
> 
> Part of these problems seem to be that Ty is unfamiliar with linux, or, at least, linux development.

You assume a lot . and incorrectly at that . I have a fairly intimate knowledge of Linux but this I have not seen before.  I have approached it on a look at what is happening in the compile command from the start and gradually understand what each swith or control is supposed to do and make sure it can do it .  I think I am at the last of that and this problem  is offered for solution by anyone more knowledgeabl than me on compiling and linking.

I don't think either my approach or your wrong assumption justify the comments below


> If this is the case, there is a LOT more to help out with then just dmd/dwt related issues.  Linux is not an easy system to learn to program on since there are many tools with which to get familiar. Thus, we must assume, to some extent, that the dwt user has some familiarity with the system he develops on.  It would horribly time-consuming otherwise to have to step the user through platform development peculiarities and linux administration.
> 
> Thankfully, we don't have to do that... since there appears to be an amazing supply of very accommodating and knowledgeable people here.  But I do think it is unfair to assume we owe such a user all our time and attention for such details.
> 
> -JJR


If you look at the example program "helloworld1.d"which I will attach here , there are a lot of problems in dwt . The writer's comment is effectively " I don't know why but you have to import the following libraries or you will get linker errors"

Perhaps if you are going to spend the time to type and post in such quantity you could stick to why you think "-lm" might not be being found .

I have tried putting /lib/ in front of my PATH and also at the end to no avail. I have copied both file and link to /usr/lib aain to no avaail . This is my $PATH
PATH=/lib:./:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/local/:/usr/local/lib:/usr/include:/lib
When I find the cause for the triple qt entry I'll be in heaven.

I'm starting to think the library may have been corrupted somehow. Have you had any reports of file corruption by dmd or dsss?

Ty Tower wrote:
> John Reimer Wrote:
>> On Linux, linking is exactly the same for static and dynamic libraries.   This is one of the advantages of the linux system.  There is no dll or import library complexity to deal with as there is on Windows.
>>
>> The difference with the developer packages is that they usually supply both the static and dynamic libs without the postfix version numbers, They also supply the necessary C headers and documentation.
>>
>> Some Linux distributions include the developer versions of the libraries by default.  Other distributions do not.  Ty might have to download these libs to get things working... which would explain a lot of the problems he's been having.
>>
> My distro is Mandriva 2007 spring and I have the developer packages installed.
> As I said the libraries are there under the name of /lib/libm-2.4.so , and linked  to it is  libm.so.6
> 
> 


Okay.  I don't know why there isn't a libm.so sym-link to these libs than.  Try making one and see what happens.


> 
>> I notice also that the command line error complained "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm"  which is odd.  It seems to be not interpreting the commandline flag: I would expect it to say "cannot find libm.a (or libm.so).  But I'm not certain.  Nonetheless the compiler is looking for the the non-version decorated libm and cannot find it.
>>
>> Incidentally, libm is the default math library on linux.  Most linux should have it installed.  The developer lib package may be necessary to access this library directly, but even then one could access the non-developer version simply by making a symbolic link to the versioned one in the lib directory where it resides.  Or one could even provide the full path the the versioned library on the command line to achieve the same thing.
>>
>> But instead of fiddling with the system, the user should just download the necessary developer version of these libraries.
>>
>> Part of these problems seem to be that Ty is unfamiliar with linux, or, at least, linux development. 
> 
> You assume a lot . and incorrectly at that . I have a fairly intimate knowledge of Linux but this I have not seen before.  I have approached it on a look at what is happening in the compile command from the start and gradually understand what each swith or control is supposed to do and make sure it can do it .  I think I am at the last of that and this problem  is offered for solution by anyone more knowledgeabl than me on compiling and linking.
> 
> I don't think either my approach or your wrong assumption justify the comments below
> 


Okay.  Perhaps I assumed wrong, but it appeared otherwise. I thought most linux developers understood that linking to a static or dynamic library was achieved the same way on linux (with the -l switch). Incidentally, I do not claim to have an intimate knowledge of linux developement or linux.  I do have a comfortable working knowledge of it, however.


>> If this is the case, there is a LOT more to help out with then just dmd/dwt related issues.  Linux is not an easy system to learn to program on since there are many tools with which to get familiar. Thus, we must assume, to some extent, that the dwt user has some familiarity with the system he develops on.  It would horribly time-consuming otherwise to have to step the user through platform development peculiarities and linux administration.
>>
>> Thankfully, we don't have to do that... since there appears to be an amazing supply of very accommodating and knowledgeable people here.  But I do think it is unfair to assume we owe such a user all our time and attention for such details.
>>
>> -JJR
> 
> 
> If you look at the example program "helloworld1.d"which I will attach here , there are a lot of problems in dwt . The writer's comment is effectively " I don't know why but you have to import the following libraries or you will get linker errors"
> 
> Perhaps if you are going to spend the time to type and post in such quantity you could stick to why you think "-lm" might not be being found .
> 


This is not clearly a dwt issue, so I won't (or shouldn't) devote more time to postulating why -lm is not found.  That would be futile for me at this point.  You are correct that I spent too much time typing a post in such quantity (including this one). libm is a dependency that the dmd compiler adds to the command-line, and this has been so for a long time.  So if it isn't working right now, I wouldn't blame it on dwt just because this is the library you are trying to use right now.  I'd tend to look further into why dmd is not working.

Furthermore, I have no idea why one needs to add the Tango imports to get things linking correctly.  I suggest you ditch dwt from your system and test dmd/dsss/Tango (or perhaps Phobos first) rigorously before you even approach dwt again.


> I have tried putting /lib/ in front of my PATH and also at the end to no avail. I have copied both file and link to /usr/lib aain to no avaail . This is my $PATH  PATH=/lib:./:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/local/:/usr/local/lib:/usr/include:/lib
> When I find the cause for the triple qt entry I'll be in heaven.
> 


These are all linux issues (or dmd setup issues).  If these cannot be straightened out, I can't help.


> I'm starting to think the library may have been corrupted somehow. Have you had any reports of file corruption by dmd or dsss?
> 
> 


No.  It's very unlikely libm could get corrupted by dmd or dsss... unless you run linux as the superuser all the time (which would be a bad idea). Even then, I don't know why dmd or dsss would do such a thing. Your whole linux distribution would be compromised if they could or did.  Even so, ld would probably report the error if libm was corrupt.

Maybe a reinstall of your Linux distribution or a different distribution might be the answer.  That may seem like a lame suggestion to you; but sadly, this is becoming the best I've got.

-JJR