Surprise using DMD as replacement C compiler

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 01/03/2024 10:41 AM, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 21:34:03 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
> 
>> There are two separate issues here, my ticket is to prevent invasive 
>> changes in a build script. What Carl's ticket is for, is to prevent an 
>> accidental infinite recursion.
>>
>> Both are needed :)
> 
> What you're proposing would prevent infinite recursion, wouldn't it? 
> Maybe I'm missing something. The source of the problem is grabbing the 
> `CC` environment variable inside link.d.

No.

DMD_CC=dmd

That'll still be recursive.