Self-hosting D compiler -- Coming Real Soon Now(tm)

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On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 00:30:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:04:52AM +0200, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 10/09/14 21:20, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> >- How to make a nice transition for people who follow git 
>> >HEAD (whose
>> >  setups will inevitably fail once the above PR gets pulled, 
>> > since it
>> >  will likely be unable to find a working D compiler in order 
>> > to
>> >  build itself);
>> 
>> Is it considered immoral to build DDMD with GDC or LDC? ;-)
>
> It's certainly a possibility, provided the makefiles are 
> updated to be
> able to work with them. :)

It's crucial for the ARM ports, which DMD itself will most likely
never support.