On 6/13/15 1:10 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Adding LATEST=2.067.1 to the command indeed allows clean to run, but then -- joy! -- I can no longer rebuild anything, because the cached DMD 2.067 is deleted and I need internet connectivity to get it back.
I don't think make clean deletes dmd2.067.1. It does instruct you to do so if you so want.
It's also a major "WTF??!!" that 'make clean' should need network connectivity in any circumstances.
Yah, supporting 100% disconnected builds was a corner case that's not properly supported yet. It's just difficult in make to set a variable efficiently only for some targets.
The bottom line of this for me is that I have dmd, druntime, phobos and tools repos all in the "standard" locations relative to my dlang.org repo; all of those are built (or I can build them). It's therefore really baffling to me that I should need more than that in order to be able to issue 'make phobos-prerelease' and see what my updated docs look like. Force me to add LATEST=dev or something like that to the command if necessary, but _don't_ force me to either download or already have cached a separate copy of the compiler. I cannot speak to how infuriating it was to be on a plane with hours to spare to work on phobos material, only to find myself flying blind unable to validate my documentation work, because the doc build system assumes network connectivity and has no obvious fallback or workaround. Sorry if the above sounds abrasive, but take it as a measure of how much I was enjoying working on phobos again :)
There's no surprise that things we didn't focus much effort don't work well. That said, I'm not sure what's happening there - things should have worked; phobos-prerelease doesn't require the legacy stuff. Should be reported as a bug. Perhaps it's dub that insists on a specific version. Could you please try "make -f posix.mak html" while disconnected and see if that goes through?
Andrei
