ldc depends on phobos

[kinke]

On Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 03:13:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Monday, 9 October 2017 at 16:57:35 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
>> On Monday, 9 October 2017 at 11:27:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> I tried building ldc without linking against phobos and got a 
>>> handful of link errors.  Has it been decided to selectively 
>>> use phobos in the ldc compiler?
>>
>> Yes.
>> (the requirement is that we should support "old" Phobos 
>> versions, LDC LTS 0.17 and upward)
>>
>> -Johan
>
> So if I have an existing ldc installation, build a new ldc 
> using the old one, linking to shared phobos, then install the 
> new one over the old, I'll likely get runtime linker errors 
> running the compiler due to incompatible Phobos versions?

Probably. Anyway, Phobos wouldn't be treated any different than 
druntime.