Attempt to get rid of phobos Makefiles, using reggae

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 21:50:41 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/562f1ddc1aad
>
> This can build the static and dynamic libraries on Linux. I 
> then linked to the static version to make sure my programs 
> still worked. They did.
>
> For other OSs there'd be some logic to select different files. 
> It was a pain figuring out exactly what posix.mak did but at 
> least this works. Is this horrible or is this the kind of 
> direction we might want to go? Also, why are some Linux files 
> not being built on Linux with the current Makefile?
>
> In theory this approach would mean readable build descriptions 
> in D, and only one of them for all OSs instead of 3 makefiles. 
> Also, never again typing `make clean`.
>
> Once reggae has a binary backend this would mean no dependency 
> on make, ninja or tup. Just a D compiler.

Nice, I'm looking forward to the day we can get rid of makefiles 
to build the D toolchain, as they're such an anachronism.  Having 
the build configured in D itself would be wonderful, :) really 
looking forward to using reggae.  Since dmd already requires a 
host D compiler to build now, there certainly isn't any problem 
with the D dependency.