Starting D with a project in mind.

[Andrew]

> Aha, oops, I have the same 2060L, but that is presumably 
> because I forgot to 'git checkout arm', and the master branch 
> on Johannes' fork is not up-to-date. The reason why this works 
> while normal GDC doesn't is that this is so old it doesn't 
> include some explicit architecture static ifs that were added 
> later (and for which ARM was not available for some time).
>
> I'm going to let this stuff rebuild overnight...

My build, from GDC master, went really well until it got to 
libphobos and then there were many architecture specific bits of 
code that just didn't include any ARM directives so it's probably 
currently impossible to build the latest libphobos on ARM.  I 
tried comparing the ARM fork but it was massively different and 
it looks like libphobos has been mostly rewritten since then.

I don't really understand why there are so many .d files that 
just seem to wrap standard os stuff - why not just use the 
standard installed C headers and avoid all of this overhead that 
needs maintaining ?

Interestingly the gcc Go compiler that is also included with gcc 
4.8 built and installed first time so I'm rather tempted to just 
to give up with D as this point after a valiant battle for the 
last few days.