Bootstrapping LDC build

[Russel Winder via digitalmars-d-ldc]

Prompted by https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1657 and https
://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1702 I am trying to think
through how to boostrap a 2.071.1 build from scratch.

I am guessing that there must be a tagged release that requires only a
C++ compiler. I can check this out, and build without a D compiler.
Then I can checkout the latest official release compile that with the
bootstrap and then compile it again with itself. If this is the case
then the wiki page at  http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source p
ossibly needs an update: it assumes you have a suitable D compiler pre-
installed and whilst Debian does, Fedora does not. 

If anyone knows where "bioinfornatics" has gone, could you put me in
touch with that person, the Fedora package hasn't been updated in ages
and it really rather needs an upgrade from 0.16 to 1.0.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/bioinfornatics/

https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ldc
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