Attempt to get rid of phobos Makefiles, using reggae

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 June 2015 at 16:05:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 29 June 2015 at 10:35:34 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> Worth making a PR for? The PR would only add this file, it 
>> wouldn't change anything about the current build, but could be 
>> used for testing purposes in the meanwhile.
>
> Yes, those who want reggae can use it, and the makefile can 
> remain the default for now.  I can't wait to ditch the 
> makefiles.
>
>> Oh, and given the manual filtering in the config, it obviously 
>> won't work on Mac OS. I have to get a hold of a Mac and make 
>> it work there too. Then... Windows.
>
> You could probably use the auto-tester to test reggae: simply 
> add the reggae source to your PR, build it with a patched 
> makefile, and then use reggae to build druntime/phobos.  I've 
> used the auto-tester to test a couple PRs for various OSs that 
> I don't have, especially OS X.

You mean make a posix.mak that actually calls reggae instead? 
Hmm... I guess that's doable. Otherwise I'd have to edit the 
script the auto-tester is using.

I'm not sure that'd guarantee the same output though.

Atila