Paul Wise: > Which software is this and why does it need itself to build? Is it a > compiler? It's the dmd compiler for the language D. It still contains non free parts and isn't packaged. In the moment the compiler relies on a C compiler and thus is a nice example of a language that does depend on itself. But I saw a mail today proposing to break this and I wanted to answer with a link to a page advocating against cyclic dependencies.
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