Surprise using DMD as replacement C compiler

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 01/03/2024 12:30 PM, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 21:52:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You'd be telling the compiler you want an infinite recursion if you do 
> that, so it would be the intended behavior. Your original proposal was

Exactly.

This is why its two separate tickets, two separate problems.