Using up-to-date GDC [was Re: Swift is based LLVM,what will the D's LDC do?]

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 20:25 +0100, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
> I have an OSX box to start porting.  But there's a couple druntime
> related problems I need to have a proper sit down about.  These are
> mostly TLS-related problems.  DMD insists on doing something wildly
> different for each target.  I insist on having a common way of doing
> everything.
> 
> Once builds start succeeding, they will come.

LDC is (relatively) easy to build: for Git repository, run cmake for
each platform to create platform specific builds, run (make clean &&
make && make install && make clean).

Is there a similarly easy way of building GDC?

Building and using the very latest version of compilers, and reporting
any issues, is a very easy way for me to chip in some effort.

(For DMD though I am just lazy, I take whatever is on D-Apt for Debian,
manually install release RPMs for Fedora – why isn't there a version of
D in RPMFusion? – and whatever is in MacPorts for OSX.)
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