Dr. Brian Callahan<p>A new <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> post appears!</p><p>I discovered that the GNU D compiler has been broken on FreeBSD 14 for over a year and it seems no one noticed. Let's discover the issue and brainstorm some solutions to it.</p><p>A great case study for why operating system package maintainers matter.</p><p><a href="https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250813.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">briancallahan.net/blog/2025081</span><span class="invisible">3.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/dlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dlang</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/dlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/dragonflybsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragonflybsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/gcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gcc</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/gdc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gdc</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnu</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compiler</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/compilers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compilers</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>d</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a></p>