I found this helpful-looking page, for Aarch64 binaries I think
https://packages.debian.org/buster/arm64/gdc-8/downloadI downloaded it and ran
dpkg -i *.deb which appeared to run successfully. It either hasn’t written the files to the right place, or they are not newer or not changed compared to the existing binary for the old version of aarch64 gdc that I was running.
Am lost. Maybe that page is
referring to an old release.
What would you do to get say a newer version of gcc onto your x86-64 linux box if you didn’t want to make it from sources? Well, you might just have to build it from sources if no one had done the required work for you yet, of course.
I don’t really want to try building gdc from sources again. That was a nightmare, many problems and I got lost. I don’t know if I can do that without getting hold of an x86-4 box to build on and using cross-compilers to get Aarch64 outputs.
I put out an appeal for help on the DLang newbies forum, but this isn’t a question about D, nor is it a complaint about gdc, rather about an obsolete superseded version, so the replies were ‘just get the new version then and all will go away’ so infinite loop.
I should be just using apt-get but that was the problem, it just fetches this broken compiler and I can see how to teach it to update and mend its ways.