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

[Seb]

On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 12:30:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 12:27:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> https://dlang.org/download.html
>
> specifically I grab the linux tarballs
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.079.0/dmd.2.079.0.linux.tar.xz
>
> and just cd dmd2/src/dmd and make -f posix.mak
>
> this always worked perfectly a year or two ago, then it broke 
> when they added the new ddoc theme and now the version is 
> missing too.

Out of interest: Why would you compile the compiler from the 
release sources? After all, it's the binary release bundle and 
not the development build. Also there are tools like digger that 
automate everything for you...

I understand that sometimes it can be nice to do that, but imho 
you are making a big deal out of this, while it's not really one 
in practice as you can simply fetch the source from GitHub.
Also there is no CI for the release builds and there's only one 
person who can build them (Martin) as it requires virtual 
machines for all supported OSes. Martin does an amazing job, but 
there's only so much one person can do...