make AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1 fails and suggests to use AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1

[Imperatorn]

On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 19:22:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I mentioned this in the past, apparently it hasn't been 
> resolved.
>
> Tried to install a dev tree for dmd from complete scratch. So:
>
> $ curl 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dlang/tools/master/setup.sh
> >/tmp/setup.sh
> $ /tmp/setup.sh
>
> The script gets everything from github nice and fast but then 
> fails to download 
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.095.0/dmd.2.095.0.linux.tar.xz for some reason.
>
> Anyway, I then try to run:
>
> $ cd dmd
> $ make AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1 -f posix.mak
>
> As mentioned in the title, the command fails and confusingly 
> suggest using AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1, which is already there.
>
> If the plan is to give up boostrapping, fine but let's 
> eliminate the code. The way things are now we both pay for the 
> technical debt and we don't profit from it.
>
> Of course it would be much better if bootstrapping actually 
> worked.

Just tried in WSL2 like this at ~:

# First I just cleaned my home
sudo rm -rf *

# And made sure I had c++
apt install g++

# Then I just did this
wget 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dlang/tools/master/setup.sh && 
chmod +x setup.sh && ./setup.sh

Everything worked as expected