Bump the minimal version required to compile DMD to 2.076.1

[Daniel Kozak]

Btw, ther is a gdc which stil uses c++ version of dfrontend, so on DragonFlyBSD
you can build dmd using gdc.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Daniel Kozak <kozzi11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So why not to use cross compilation?
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Joakim via Digitalmars-d <
> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 12:15:27 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
>>
>>> And what builds C++ compiler from source ? :)
>>>
>>
>> The system C/C++ compiler is already built and there, obviously.  Since
>> nobody ships a D compiler with their OS, I'm not sure how you think that's
>> relevant.
>>
>> On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 12:36:04 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
>>
>>> Exactly, there is no reason to build 2.067, 2.076, and 2.078, just build
>>> the latest one with the previos one. It is common (in case you do not have
>>> dlang compiler in your distribution) to start with downloading existing
>>> binary and compile lastest version as a package, then you can use this
>>> package as a dependency for building new versions.
>>>
>>
>> There is no existing binary for an OS that doesn't have a port yet!
>>
>> Take the current DragonFlyBSD port that's being done: he had to port both
>> dmd 2.067, which is written in C++, and the latest dmd master to DragonFly,
>> in order to have source packages for their ports repository:
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7463
>>
>> If you bump the D compiler required for latest master, he'll have to port
>> every bumped D compiler too, ie 2.067, 2.076, and 2.078, in order to have a
>> source package.  That's going to be a huge pain that will stop many from
>> doing the initial port.
>>
>
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