• Jacob Carlborg (8/8) Jan 10 2013 I just had an issue with a binary compiled on Mac OS X 10.8 not running
• Walter Bright (3/9) Jan 10 2013 Presumably there is some reason why this is not the default behavior of ...
• Jacob Carlborg (6/8) Jan 10 2013 I don't know. I've got the impression that, at least the tools by Apple,...

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

I just had an issue with a binary compiled on Mac OS X 10.8 not running 
on any older version. When I found the problem it was an easy fix adding 
the following linker flags:

-L-macosx_version_min -L10.6

Would it be a good idea if DMD targeted the oldest supported OS by 
default, that is, when invoking GCC to link?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 1/10/2013 12:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 I just had an issue with a binary compiled on Mac OS X 10.8 not running on any
 older version. When I found the problem it was an easy fix adding the following
 linker flags:

 -L-macosx_version_min -L10.6

 Would it be a good idea if DMD targeted the oldest supported OS by default,
that
 is, when invoking GCC to link?

Presumably there is some reason why this is not the default behavior of the 
linker. Some performance problem, maybe?

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-01-10 22:13, Walter Bright wrote:

 Presumably there is some reason why this is not the default behavior of
 the linker. Some performance problem, maybe?

I don't know. I've got the impression that, at least the tools by Apple, 
target by default the same system you're building on. I general Apple 
wants you to run their latest software.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg