Bug 17996 – [Reg 2.077] don't build libphobos2.a with PIC for i386

cat > bug.d << CODE import std.getopt; void main(string[] args) { string extras; getopt(args, "extras", &extras); } CODE dmd bug ./bug --extras=foobar ========== std.getopt.GetOptException@/home/vagrant/dlang/dmd-2.077.0/freebsd/bin32/../../src/phobos/std/getopt.d(789): Unrecognized option --extras=foobar ---------------- ??:? @safe void std.getopt.getoptImpl!().getoptImpl(ref immutable(char)[][], ref std.getopt.configuration, ref std.getopt.GetoptResult, ref std.getopt.GetOptException, void[][immutable(char)[]], void[][immutable(char)[]]) [0x807b950] ??:? @safe void std.getopt.getoptImpl!(immutable(char)[], immutable(char)[]*).getoptImpl(ref immutable(char)[][], ref std.getopt.configuration, ref std.getopt.GetoptResult, ref std.getopt.GetOptException, void[][immutable(char)[]], void[][immutable(char)[]], immutable(char)[], immutable(char)[]*) [0x8079eed] ??:? @safe std.getopt.GetoptResult std.getopt.getopt!(immutable(char)[], immutable(char)[]*).getopt(ref immutable(char)[][], immutable(char)[], immutable(char)[]*) [0x8079942] ??:? _Dmain [0x80798db] ========== I've debugged this until a failing optMatch call with seemingly correct arguments. https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/7a2732e4b06d6684a717a756c20e271e9ede2812/std/getopt.d#L842 When converting optMatch to a template the bug goes away, so it might be some incompatibilities with the pre-compiled binary function shipped with phobos-2.077.0.

Apparently happens due to usage of -fPIC when compiling phobos. While this is a bug with the PIC code generation, the 32-bit libphobos2.a should not use PIC. Introduced by https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5586

Commits pushed to stable at https://github.com/dlang/phobos https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/1f1efea282d5d9409bedcfcb8e8b9082b492d194 fix Issue 17996 - don't build libphobos2.a with PIC for i386 - use MODEL=64/32 to decide on default - allow overriding default with explicit PIC=0/1 make args https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/3a2acacb4d4662cd6a2253f7cea2664c0afc11e2 Merge pull request #5868 from MartinNowak/fix17996 fix Issue 17996 - don't build libphobos2.a with PIC for i386 merged-on-behalf-of: Petar Kirov <[email protected]>

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/phobos https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/1f1efea282d5d9409bedcfcb8e8b9082b492d194 fix Issue 17996 - don't build libphobos2.a with PIC for i386 https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/3a2acacb4d4662cd6a2253f7cea2664c0afc11e2 Merge pull request #5868 from MartinNowak/fix17996