Building LDC for FreeBSD PowerPC64

[Johan]

On Thursday, 16 December 2021 at 14:55:52 UTC, Curtis Hamilton 
wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 6:55 PM kinke via digitalmars-d-ldc < 
> digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 11 December 2021 at 05:15:33 UTC, Curtis Hamilton 
>> wrote:
>> > Unfortunately I’ve not been successful in using LDC-0.17.6 
>> > or ltsmaster to bootstrap and build a newer LDC release.
>> >
>> > But I have managed to build LDC-1.23 using GDC as the host D 
>> > compiler.
>>
>> Yeah, gdc is the suggested bootstrap way. - So you got that 
>> LDC to successfully build druntime and Phobos? I wouldn't have 
>> thought you'd get that far ;) - there's a number of (old) 
>> reported PowerPC issues on GitHub.
>>
> Yes, I’ve been successful in getting LDC to build using GDC as 
> the host D. In fact, the resulting build seems to be working 
> well.  I did have to make a few changes to the code to get 
> everything working.

Good news :)
Would you be so kind to submit the required changes as PRs on 
Github?

Thanks!
   Johan