bootstrap ldc 1.x.x on non-x86 platforms

[Stefan Koch via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 19:45:48 UTC, Konstantinos 
Margaritis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Previous ldc versions were built on powerpc/ppc64le/arm* 
> directly but current ldc build-depends on itself. The problem 
> is that previous versions had problems and using those debs 
> caused failures on all these platforms:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ldc
>
> Is there any other way to build the 1.0.0 front-end on these 
> platforms some other way? It won't have to be a supported 
> solution, just a one-off thing until I get a working package 
> for each arch.
>
> Konstantinos

There is the lts branch which can build the bootstrap compiler.