Hi,

I've been trying to build phobos on a linux system, and it's failing during the link step :
  /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--no-warn-search-mismatch'

Poking at this a little, I see that I'm running a relatively old version of ld :

[np274@login-0-0 phobos]$ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3 20061020

and this flag wasn't available then.
     https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/ld/Options.html#Options

Unfortunately, I can't upgrade this and was wondering if there was a way to change the linker flags that dmd sends to ld..

Thanks in advance!
-- Nikhil

On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 19:04:08 UTC, Nikhil Padmanabhan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to build phobos on a linux system, and it's failing during the link step :
>   /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--no-warn-search-mismatch'
>
> Poking at this a little, I see that I'm running a relatively old version of ld :
>
> [np274@login-0-0 phobos]$ ld --version
> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3 20061020
>
> and this flag wasn't available then.
>      https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/ld/Options.html#Options
>
> Unfortunately, I can't upgrade this and was wondering if there was a way to change the linker flags that dmd sends to ld..
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -- Nikhil

I think this flags is set in /etc/dmd.conf (or whenever dmd.conf is located on your system). At least mine has "-L--no-warn-search-mismatch" there.

That fixed it! Thanks!

On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 19:09:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 19:04:08 UTC, Nikhil Padmanabhan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to build phobos on a linux system, and it's failing during the link step :
>>  /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--no-warn-search-mismatch'
>>
>> Poking at this a little, I see that I'm running a relatively old version of ld :
>>
>> [np274@login-0-0 phobos]$ ld --version
>> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-20.el5_8.3 20061020
>>
>> and this flag wasn't available then.
>>     https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/ld/Options.html#Options
>>
>> Unfortunately, I can't upgrade this and was wondering if there was a way to change the linker flags that dmd sends to ld..
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> -- Nikhil
>
> I think this flags is set in /etc/dmd.conf (or whenever dmd.conf is located on your system). At least mine has "-L--no-warn-search-mismatch" there.