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 ?

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?

On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 23:03:05 UTC, 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 ?

This is the PIE by default problem, yes? In which case the hot fix should just always enable -fPIC for debian/ubuntu.

 See also https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cgifwxqogkvpfrjcioum@forum.dlang.org

On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 05:01:06 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 23:03:05 UTC, 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 ?
>
> This is the PIE by default problem, yes? In which case the hot fix should just always enable -fPIC for debian/ubuntu.
>
>  See also https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cgifwxqogkvpfrjcioum@forum.dlang.org

That's the hotfix, but in general it's overkill. -fpie is a subset of -fpic, see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html

On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 09:00:08 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 05:01:06 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 23:03:05 UTC, 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 ?
>>
>> This is the PIE by default problem, yes? In which case the hot fix should just always enable -fPIC for debian/ubuntu.
>>
>>  See also https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cgifwxqogkvpfrjcioum@forum.dlang.org
>
> That's the hotfix, but in general it's overkill. -fpie is a subset of -fpic, see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html

The shipped binaries are not compiled with that flag, so, unless I use my homebrew of everything, nothing works.

On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 10:22:10 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 09:00:08 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 05:01:06 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 23:03:05 UTC, 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 ?
>>>
>>> This is the PIE by default problem, yes? In which case the hot fix should just always enable -fPIC for debian/ubuntu.
>>>
>>>  See also https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cgifwxqogkvpfrjcioum@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> That's the hotfix, but in general it's overkill. -fpie is a subset of -fpic, see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html
>
> The shipped binaries are not compiled with that flag, so, unless I use my homebrew of everything, nothing works.

Yes, as I said, -fpic* is the hotfix until we support -fpie. We should definitely provide alternative downloads compiled with -fpic, at least the deb packages if not also the zip.

* side note: fpic and fPIC aren't exactly the same on all platforms, but for x86(_64) iirc they are identical.

On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 23:03 +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d 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 ?

Is this related to the gdc cannot be installed on Debian Sid at the moment problem?

Are they using the DMD Deb file or the Deb from D-APT?

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On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 13:19:57 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 23:03 +0000, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d 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 ?
>
> Is this related to the gdc cannot be installed on Debian Sid at the moment problem?
>
> Are they using the DMD Deb file or the Deb from D-APT?

This doesn't affect installation. But nothing link anymore.

On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 01:20:06 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> This doesn't affect installation. But nothing link anymore.

Ho Hi !

The .deb do NOT work. Can we get an hotfix out there ?

On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 19:16:07 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 01:20:06 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> This doesn't affect installation. But nothing link anymore.
>
> Ho Hi !
>
> The .deb do NOT work. Can we get an hotfix out there ?

Which deb does not work where ?
I will try to reproduce and fix the issue.