Tip: Use -i to modify druntime/phobos without rebuilding them

[Jonathan Marler]

On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 07:17:11 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 10/02/2020 8:03 PM, Mathias Lang wrote:
>> On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 06:19:44 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>> 
>> Doesn't that only work for specific cases involving templates 
>> though ?
>> If you don't recompile Phobos, anything you'll link will still 
>> link the old binaries. So it's akin to compiling C(++) code 
>> but having the headers not match the `.c(pp)`.
>
> -i != -I

In C++ it would be akin to re-compiling all the source files that 
match your "-i" pattern, not just changing the header files.  The 
case you're thinking of is the behavior you get when you don't 
specify -i.