I'm manually building dmd, druntime and phobos like so:

$ cd ~/dev/repos/dlang
$ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
$ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime
$ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos

$ cd dmd && make -f make -f posix.mak -j4 AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1
$ cd ../druntime && make -f make -f posix.mak -j4
$ cd ../phobos && make -f make -f posix.mak -j4

$ cat << EOF > ~/dev/repos/dlang/dmd/src/dmd.conf
[Environment]

DFLAGS=-I~/dev/repos/dlang/druntime/import -I~/dev/repos/dlang/phobos -L-L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
EOF

# required for dub
$ sudo ln -s ~/dev/repos/dlang/dmd/src/dmd /bin/dmd

When my I build my library with dub I can see that dmd.conf is detected correctly:
$ cd $myproj

(I added the following to my dub.sdl:
dflags "-v"
lflags "-v")

$ dmd test --verbose
...
Performing "unittest" build using dmd for x86_64.
...
binary    dmd
version   v2.070-devel-46cc1c6
config    /home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/dmd/src/dmd.conf
...
Linking...
...
/usr/bin/ld {other stuff...} -L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64 -lphobos2
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2

However
$ ls /home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
etc  libphobos2.a  libphobos2.so  libphobos2.so.0.70  libphobos2.so.0.70.0  libphobos2.so.0.70.o

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

On 21.03.2016 11:19, ZombineDev wrote:

> DFLAGS=-I~/dev/repos/dlang/druntime/import -I~/dev/repos/dlang/phobos
> -L-L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
[...]
> Linking...
> ...
> /usr/bin/ld {other stuff...}
> -L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64 -lphobos2
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2
>
> However
> $ ls /home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
> etc  libphobos2.a  libphobos2.so  libphobos2.so.0.70
> libphobos2.so.0.70.0  libphobos2.so.0.70.o
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Asterisk expansion is a shell feature. dmd probably doesn't go through a shell when running ld.

Even if it did, no expansion would be done there, because the word is looked at as a whole. With the leading "-L", the pattern doesn't match an actual path. For example, compare `echo /*` with `echo -L/*`.

You have to spell the different paths out.

On Monday, 21 March 2016 at 10:46:27 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 21.03.2016 11:19, ZombineDev wrote:
>
>> DFLAGS=-I~/dev/repos/dlang/druntime/import -I~/dev/repos/dlang/phobos
>> -L-L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
> [...]
>> Linking...
>> ...
>> /usr/bin/ld {other stuff...}
>> -L/home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64 -lphobos2
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2
>>
>> However
>> $ ls /home/zombinedev/dev/repos/dlang/phobos/generated/*/release/64
>> etc  libphobos2.a  libphobos2.so  libphobos2.so.0.70
>> libphobos2.so.0.70.0  libphobos2.so.0.70.o
>>
>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Asterisk expansion is a shell feature. dmd probably doesn't go through a shell when running ld.
>
> Even if it did, no expansion would be done there, because the word is looked at as a whole. With the leading "-L", the pattern doesn't match an actual path. For example, compare `echo /*` with `echo -L/*`.
>
> You have to spell the different paths out.

Thanks a lot! I replaced "*" with the name of my OS and it all works!
I thought that if it could replace $HOME, it ought to replace the asterisk.
Probably I should add this caveat to http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Running_Independent_Programs for future reference.