I'm running into a problem installing dmd in the computer labs at my department. I don't have root access so I'm installing into my home directory and I had a working dmd 0.150 but I was in need of features introduced after that so I tried to install 1.038 instead.

Now I'm getting

dmd: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dmd)

and by extension no working compiler.

I found an old post describing the same problem but no solution. Does anyone have a solution to the above problem or should I give up the idea of using D for this project?

(I have tried earlier to compile both ldc and gdc but without success)

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM@ovegmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running into a problem installing dmd in the computer labs at my department. I don't have root access so I'm installing into my home directory and I had a working dmd 0.150 but I was in need of features introduced after that so I tried to install 1.038 instead.
>
> Now I'm getting
>
> dmd: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dmd)
>
> and by extension no working compiler.
>
> I found an old post describing the same problem but no solution. Does anyone have a solution to the above problem or should I give up the idea of using D for this project?
>
> (I have tried earlier to compile both ldc and gdc but without success)

I think DMD requires libc version 5, but don't quote me on that.

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM@ovegmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm running into a problem installing dmd in the computer labs at my department. I don't have root access so I'm installing into my home directory and I had a working dmd 0.150 but I was in need of features introduced after that so I tried to install 1.038 instead.
>>
>> Now I'm getting
>>
>> dmd: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dmd)
>>
>> and by extension no working compiler.
>>
>> I found an old post describing the same problem but no solution. Does anyone have a solution to the above problem or should I give up the idea of using D for this project?
>>
>> (I have tried earlier to compile both ldc and gdc but without success)
> 
> I think DMD requires libc version 5, but don't quote me on that.

I actually think it is a link error, in that too high a version of libc (compared to what is needed) is linked in.

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On 2008-12-27 00:34:50 +0100, Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM@OVEgmail.com> said:
> Now I'm getting
> 
> dmd: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dmd)
> 
> and by extension no working compiler.
> 
> I found an old post describing the same problem but no solution. Does anyone
> have a solution to the above problem or should I give up the idea of using
> D for this project?

Yes, you'd need a newer glibc version. It should also be possible to put a newer glibc library in a separate directory, and run DMD with the appropriate path added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. E.g.:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/compat-lib ~/dmd/bin/dmd

-- Daniel