A new and exciting way in which DMD fails to build for me

[Meta via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at 20:33:58 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:22:59 +0000
> Meta via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> > what is that "id.c" at all? i can't find such file in dmd 
>> > git repo...
>> 
>> It's generated by idgen.exe, which is compiled from idgen.c. 
>> I'm not sure why, exactly.
> ah, sorry, i should read your post more carefully.
>
> did you deleted all the files in question, i.e.
>
>   id.c
>   id.h
>   idgen.obj
>   idgen.exe
>
> before trying to run make again?

Yeah, it's strange. I guess it must be make-related, as the 
incorrect id.c is only generated when I run the makefile, but I 
don't understand make enough to discern if that's the case.