On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 21:41:11 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > 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. Well, then I guess gdc or ldc might be usable instead of needing itself to build. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130213010408.ga22...@gaara.hadrons.org
