Continuous bootstrapping in dmd
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 2 06:14:02 PDT 2015
Currently, if AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1 flag is passed to the make command for
dmd, an existing dmd build is downloaded off of the Net into a temporary
directory and used to bootstrap building the compiler.
This is great for machines that either don't have dmd or have an older
version installed.
However, there's no easy way to _continue_ auto-bootstrapping, i.e.
using the just-built dmd to build the "next" dmd. For that we need a few
simple changes such as making temporary copies of dmd etc.
Is this a model that would be of interest to dmd contributors?
Andrei
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