On Mar 10, 2013 11:41 PM, "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 18:45:12 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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>> On 8 March 2013 18:37, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Is there any way of knowing the correct snapshot to compile with at any
>>> given time? It's a pretty lengthy trial and error process to find out....
>>>
>>
>> I normally update my gcc snapshot once every fortnight.  If there's any
>> compilation issues let me know.  But I hardly run into any, if at all...
>
>
> I downloaded the most recent snapshot (03/03) and gave compiling a go. After fiddling around getting mpc mpfr and gmp3 recognised, I ran in to this:
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> In file included from /Users/johncolvin/Git/gdc/gcc_for_gdc/gcc/d/dfrontend/mars.c:109:0:
> d/verstr.h: In constructor ‘Global::Global()’:
> d/verstr.h:1:2: error: ‘n’ was not declared in this scope
>  -n "2.062"
>   ^
> d/verstr.h:1:4: error: expected ‘;’ before string constant
>  -n "2.062"
>     ^
>
> This is on OS X 10.7, patch 2.5.8, gmp 5.0.5, mpfr 3.1.1, mpc 1.0.1, GNU Autoconf 2.69, GNU automake 1.13.1, flex 2.5.37, GNU Bison 2.7, GNU patch 2.7.1, gcc/++ 4.7.2

I guess that would be stupid OSX doesn't have an  -n switch for echo.

Feel free to send a patched Make-lang.in file. But I have an idea of what instead to use.