Problems with dmd Switches in Makefiles

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On Sunday, 18 May 2014 at 16:15:53 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> For the compiler version, I've submitted a PR:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3558

Ok, the outcome is that a dedicated option is not seen as 
necessary. DMD already prints its version as the first line if 
you call it without arguments. If you need only the version, you 
can use:

     dmd | head -n1