yes, arch linux is the platform and 'nim' sources were 'git clone'd directly
from github [https://github.com/nim-lang/nim](https://github.com/nim-lang/nim)
_instead_ of arch aur nim-git.
[strikr@victory ~]$ uname -a
Linux victory 4.9.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 20 12:11:50 CET 2017
x86_64 GNU/Linux
[strikr@victory ~]$
please see
[strikr@victory nim]$ ls
bin/ config/ do_step2.sh* install_nimble.nims
koch.nim.cfg manual.log readme.md tools/
build/ copying.txt do_step3.sh* install_tools.nims lib/
manual.out readme.txt web/
ci/ csources/ do_step4.sh* install.txt log.1
manual.toc tests/
compiler/ doc/ examples/ koch* log.txt
missfont.log tinyc/
compiler.nimble do_step1.sh* icons/ koch.nim
manual.aux nimcache/ todo.txt
wrote a bunch of trivial script files (do_step*.sh) for each build step
step1
[strikr@victory nim]$ cat do_step1.sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources
step2
[strikr@victory nim]$ cat do_step2.sh
cd csources && sh build.sh
step3
[strikr@victory nim]$ cat do_step3.sh
bin/nim c koch
./koch boot -d:release
step4
[strikr@victory nim]$ cat do_step4.sh
./koch pdf
