[Dlang-internal] How do I see what build.d is doing?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/29/20 2:48 PM, Sebastian Wilzbach wrote:
> On 29/06/2020 20.30, Andrei Alexandrescu via Dlang-internal wrote:
>> On 6/29/20 1:57 PM, Sebastian Wilzbach wrote:
>>> Solution: stop using the legacy Makefile wrapper which was only left in
>>> the source repository to ease the transition for dmd packagers and CI
>>> systems.
>>> tl;dr:
>>>
>>> ./src/build.d -v
>>
>> How would that work with AUTO_BOOSTRAP?
> 
> Auto bootstrapping just downloads a (somewhat arbitrary) dmd version to
> make setup a little easier/predictable, but you should have a dmd
> compiler installed on your system, if not:
> 
> . $(~/dlang/install.sh --activate dmd)
> ./src/build.d -v
> 
> If your question is about ensuring that DMD is built with the currently
> selected version for bootstrapping, you can still do:
> 
> ./src/build.d -v AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1

Cool, thanks!