Trying to build GDC from sources (New fool - please be kind)

[Iain Buclaw]

On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 06:26:39 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> Got as far as downloading a huge .tar.xz file and extracting 
> it, but U just guessed at a version of gcc sources to ftp-fetch 
> in the first place.
>
> I have a gcc-7.3.0 folder now. Is that the correct version 
> number ?
>
> Next, the script file  setup-gcc.sh comes up with the error 
> message
>         "found gcc version 7
>          This version of GCC (7) is not supported."
>
> It's looking for a patch file with a different name, based on 
> version number. I have patch files patch-*8.patch currently, 
> mismatch against the check for 7.
>
> Not sure where to go from here.

git checkout gdc-7

GCC releases are in separate branches for cleanliness and ease of 
maintenance.

https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-7

Iain