[dmd-internals] DMD now requires a working D compiler to be build

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/8/2015 9:00 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 March 2015 at 15:18:25 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>> I certainly hope we aren't going to need a long daisy chain of DMD versions
>>> in order to build DMD completely from source...
>>
>> I would prefer long periods between host compiler version bumps, but is
>> building completely from source really a concern?
>
> I don't think it would be, especially since building the successive stages can
> be trivially automated using a script if one is so inclined.

Trivial in theory, but we all know how fragile that can be in practice.