Re: Remember when make -f posix.mak just worked for dmd from zip?

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 12:17:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 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.

All of these are bugs in the distribution / packaging / build 
process, and should be fixed. Shipping unbuildable source code 
loses half the point of shipping source code at all.