[dmd-internals] DMD now requires a working D compiler to be build

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 8 March 2015 at 15:18:25 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> I certainly hope we aren't going to need a long daisy chain of 
>> DMD versions in order to build DMD completely from source...
>
> I would prefer long periods between host compiler version 
> bumps, but is building completely from source really a concern?

I don't think it would be, especially since building the 
successive stages can be trivially automated using a script if 
one is so inclined.

  — David