DMC download on main site contains wrong link.exe?

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On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 08:50:07 UTC, Meta wrote:
> I was just trying to compile DMD from source when I got a 
> linker error:
>
> OPTLINK : warning 9: Unkown Option : LA
>
> I got this version of OPTLINK from the DMC zip hosted here: 
> http://downloads.dlang.org/other/dm857c.zip. It says it's 
> version 8.00.15, and the copyright message says "1989-2010" (as 
> opposed to "1989-2013", as the copy of OPTLINK in my regular 
> DMD install says).
>
> I fixed the problem by just copying the version of OPTLINK from 
> my regular DMD install, but it seems like that old version of 
> OPTLINK that's shipping in the DMC zip might be the wrong one.

I get the same issue when using DMC to build the git head version 
of DMD, but I've always just ignored that warning. Things seem to 
work okay even with it.