Remember when make -f posix.mak just worked for dmd from zip?

[Daniel Kozak]

wierd, still working for me, and it seems working for archlinux too:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/dmd

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> I do. It was a long, long time ago, but it was a glorious age when you
> could hack on dmd with ease. Just download the zip, cd dmd/src/dmd and
> make. Seconds later, you'd have a new dmd binary.
>
> But then the dark times came.
>
> dmd/globals.d(362): Error: file "VERSION" cannot be found or not in a path
> specified with -J
>
> The compiler barked.
>
> make: *** No rule to make target `../generated/linux/release/64/SYSCONFDIR.imp',
> needed by `../generated/linux/release/64/dmd'.  Stop.
>
> The make program howled.
>
> Fine, I'll play your game, the hacker asserted and did create the files
> but the shell hissed
>
> /bin/sh: ../config.sh: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `../res/default_ddoc_theme.ddoc', needed
> by `../generated/linux/release/64/dmd'.  Stop.
>
>
>
> It might be boost licensed now, but it has moved further away from the
> most basic principle of free software: that the source actually works.
>
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