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

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 00:41:50 Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> "Vladimir Panteleev"  wrote in message
> news:vdwvdnzzzhenuybcbxjx at forum.dlang.org...
>
> > What about source Linux distributions, like Gentoo?
> >
> > What do other self-hosted languages do in this situation?
>
> Download the zip.

And it's not like dmd would be alone with this problem. Other languages'
compilers are written in the language that they compile as well (e.g.
Haskell's ghc is written in Haskell), so it's not like this is a new
problem. And actually, that's really what you're doing with gcc as well on
gentoo - it's just that it comes with the base install rather than
downloading it from elsewhere, but it's initially built elsewhere, otherwise
gentoo would have nothing to compile with.

- Jonathan M Davis