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

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On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 02:10:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/10/15 5:06 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message
>> news:mdnvct$1avc$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> I think that's 2.066.1, right?
>>
>> 2.066.1 is enough to build idgen.d, but it can't build ddmd on 
>> all
>> platforms.  Among other things, the varargs fixes are missing.
>
> But this is weird - a release being built is required for 
> building, um, itself?
>
> I do understand that idgen is a separate executable but the 
> simple view is that if dmd 2.067 requires dmd being present, 
> the preexisting dmd can't be 2.067.
>
> Or I'm misunderstanding something. The short version is the 
> simpler the bootstrapping the better.

2.067 doesn't have DMD-built idgen yet. This is only applies to 
current master and thus 2.068