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[Walter Bright]

On 12/29/2012 3:01 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 10:53 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> […]
>> Which component and where is the problem?
> […]
>
> The Phobos build depends on Druntime and makes the assumptions that it
> is in ../druntime via the:
>
> 	${MAKE} -C ../druntime …
>
> line in the posix.mak file.

That is controlled by the line:

DRUNTIME_PATH = ../druntime

in posix.mak. What would be a better default?


> I would have thought DMD, Druntime and Phobos should be buildable
> independently but this seems not to be the case, in which case they
> should perhaps be a single multi-module project.

The order to build things is dmd, druntime, phobos. Perhaps it was not the best 
idea to make them separate projects, but I think we're stuck with that now.

> How do GDC and LDC relate to Druntime and Phobos?

I don't know.