On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 00:41:50 Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d wrote: > "Vladimir Panteleev" wrote in message > news:vdwvdnzzzhenuybcb...@forum.dlang.org... > > > What about source Linux distributions, like Gentoo? > > > > What do other self-hosted languages do in this situation? > > Download the zip.
And it's not like dmd would be alone with this problem. Other languages' compilers are written in the language that they compile as well (e.g. Haskell's ghc is written in Haskell), so it's not like this is a new problem. And actually, that's really what you're doing with gcc as well on gentoo - it's just that it comes with the base install rather than downloading it from elsewhere, but it's initially built elsewhere, otherwise gentoo would have nothing to compile with. - Jonathan M Davis
