Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

[ted via Digitalmars-d]

cheers for that - that differentiation/distinction wasn't clear (to me).


anonymous wrote:

> On Saturday 22 August 2015 11:05, ted wrote:
> 
>> From here, I can go to 'Building DMD' and 'How to Fork and Build
>> dlang.org', which both seem to build DMD - I'm unsure of the overlap
>> aspects here.
> 
> The 'dlang.org' project is the website. It deals with building dmd only
> insofar as you need a compiler to build the website. If your goal is to
> build dmd, don't bother with anything 'dlang.org'.
> 
>> There is also an issue with the set of instructions in 'How to Fork and
>> Build dlang.org' - and I don't know what category to file the bug under
>> in bugzilla !?).
> 
> Component: dlang.org
> 
>> make --directory=../dmd-2.068.0/src -f posix.mak -j 4
>> make[1]: *** ../dmd-2.068.0/src: No such file or directory.  Stop.
>> posix.mak:338: recipe for target '../dmd-2.068.0/src/dmd' failed
>> make: *** [../dmd-2.068.0/src/dmd] Error 2
> 
> This is issue 14915, a regression in 2.068:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14915
> 
> As a workaround, you can manually revert the changes done in PR #1050.
> 
> Though, repeating myself, if your goal is to build dmd, don't bother with
> dlang.org.