wierd, still working for me, and it seems working for archlinux too: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/dmd
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > I do. It was a long, long time ago, but it was a glorious age when you > could hack on dmd with ease. Just download the zip, cd dmd/src/dmd and > make. Seconds later, you'd have a new dmd binary. > > But then the dark times came. > > dmd/globals.d(362): Error: file "VERSION" cannot be found or not in a path > specified with -J > > The compiler barked. > > make: *** No rule to make target > `../generated/linux/release/64/SYSCONFDIR.imp', > needed by `../generated/linux/release/64/dmd'. Stop. > > The make program howled. > > Fine, I'll play your game, the hacker asserted and did create the files > but the shell hissed > > /bin/sh: ../config.sh: No such file or directory > make: *** No rule to make target `../res/default_ddoc_theme.ddoc', needed > by `../generated/linux/release/64/dmd'. Stop. > > > > It might be boost licensed now, but it has moved further away from the > most basic principle of free software: that the source actually works. >