[dmd-internals] default dmd target == debdmd?

[Don Clugston]

On 27 August 2010 17:15, Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was in the process of doing some windows phobos development, so I decided to
> start using the latest compiler from trunk.  But when I started building
> druntime and phobos, I was getting these printouts:
>
> Max # of fixups = 0
> Max # of fixups = 1
> Max # of fixups = 4
> Max # of fixups = 1
> ...
>
> I thought WTF?  Well, it turns out the default build of dmd if you just do make
> -f win32.mak is debdmd, not dmd.
>
> Is there a good reason for this?  If not, can we change the default target to
> dmd?

It's so you can debug the compiler.Pretty much the only time you want
the release version is when making an official release.