The annoying D build system

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-20 09:21, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

> I'm showing the path of least resistance for how to build either
> dmd/druntime/phobos/dlang-org

The build systems for the repositories are still breaking out of their 
top level directory.

> They are buggy on Windows. The last time I've used them Git started
> showing thousands of error messages, crashed and erased my repo and
> commit history, but one of the last few commits were left in the
> reflog so I managed to recover my files. It also copied the submodule
> repo directory into randomly selected folders in an upper directory.
>
> Maybe it's just an msysgit thing, but I'm never touching submodules again.

I haven't had any problems with submodules so far. I don't really 
understand why they wouldn't work as good on Windows as the other platforms.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg