I wonder how this could have happened. Here's what I did:

git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git dmd-2.066.1

git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git druntime-2.066.1

git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git phobos-2.066.1

After this I had three nice directories. Then I built dmd, it worked. Then I built druntime making sure I pass DMD=../dmd-2.066.1/src/dmd in make's command line. That worked, too.

When I built phobos I got:

====
Error: unrecognized switch '-conf='
====

How did it happen that the -conf= flag is required by phobos 2.066.1 yet was not implemented in the same version of dmd?


Thanks,

Andrei

"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message news:mdt2mj$8gc$1@digitalmars.com...

> I wonder how this could have happened. Here's what I did:
>
> git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git dmd-2.066.1

None of these clone commands work for me, I get:
"warning: Remote branch v2.066.1 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead" 

On 3/12/15 5:15 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message
> news:mdt2mj$8gc$1@digitalmars.com...
>
>> I wonder how this could have happened. Here's what I did:
>>
>> git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1
>> git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git dmd-2.066.1
>
> None of these clone commands work for me, I get:
> "warning: Remote branch v2.066.1 not found in upstream origin, using
> HEAD instead"

Could that be because our default remotes are different (e.g. yours is your own fork)? -- Andrei

"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message news:mdtb6c$f2f$1@digitalmars.com...

> Could that be because our default remotes are different (e.g. yours is your own fork)? -- Andrei

I don't think so, but it could be because I've got an older version of git. I took a quick look at the 2.066.1 tag on github, and it doesn't look like there's any mention of -conf in phobos' posix.mak (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/c8fccac8c20a3bdd6300128f610267a24d42473f/posix.mak)

Do you maybe have it in an environment variable or dmd.conf that's getting picked up? 

On 3/12/15 5:44 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message
> news:mdtb6c$f2f$1@digitalmars.com...
>
>> Could that be because our default remotes are different (e.g. yours is
>> your own fork)? -- Andrei
>
> I don't think so, but it could be because I've got an older version of
> git. I took a quick look at the 2.066.1 tag on github, and it doesn't
> look like there's any mention of -conf in phobos' posix.mak
> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/c8fccac8c20a3bdd6300128f610267a24d42473f/posix.mak)
>
>
> Do you maybe have it in an environment variable or dmd.conf that's
> getting picked up?

Wait, so aren't we discussing a git-specific thing? (Anyhow I don't have an active dmd.conf. It's a fresh VM.) -- Andrei

More info: this is a fresh VM with Ubuntu 14.04. I've installed a number of tools with apt-get including gdc. There is no dmd installation. git is version 1.9.1. -- Andrei

"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message news:mdteff$hdf$2@digitalmars.com...

> More info: this is a fresh VM with Ubuntu 14.04. I've installed a number of tools with apt-get including gdc. There is no dmd installation. git is version 1.9.1. -- Andrei

Hmm.  What are the commit hashes for dmd, druntime and phobos? 

On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 00:15:32 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message news:mdt2mj$8gc$1@digitalmars.com...
>
>> I wonder how this could have happened. Here's what I did:
>>
>> git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git dmd-2.066.1
>
> None of these clone commands work for me, I get:
> "warning: Remote branch v2.066.1 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead"

What Git version are you using?

"git clone --branch" learned to work with tags in Git v1.7.10.

"Vladimir Panteleev"  wrote in message news:tlocllgihbddloqlafgj@forum.dlang.org...

> What Git version are you using?
>
> "git clone --branch" learned to work with tags in Git v1.7.10.

Yeah, it was 1.7.1. 

On 03/12/2015 06:07 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I wonder how this could have happened. Here's what I did:
>
> git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1
> git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git dmd-2.066.1
>
> git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1
> git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git druntime-2.066.1
>
> git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1
> git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git phobos-2.066.1
>
> After this I had three nice directories. Then I built dmd, it worked.
> Then I built druntime making sure I pass DMD=../dmd-2.066.1/src/dmd in
> make's command line. That worked, too.
>
> When I built phobos I got:
>
> ====
> Error: unrecognized switch '-conf='
> ====
>
> How did it happen that the -conf= flag is required by phobos 2.066.1 yet
> was not implemented in the same version of dmd?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I haven't tried in a fresh VM, but that all works for me on Debian testing x64. I made sure no DMD was on my path and did this:

$ which dmd
$ mkdir test
$ cd test

$ git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git dmd-2.066.1

$ git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git druntime-2.066.1

$ git clone --quiet -b v2.066.1 --depth=1 git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git phobos-2.066.1

$ cd dmd-2.066.1
$ make -f posix.mak
$ cd ../druntime-2.066.1
$ make -f posix.mak DMD=../dmd-2.066.1/src/dmd
$ cd ../phobos-2.066.1
$ make -f posix.mak DMD=../dmd-2.066.1/src/dmd DRUNTIME_PATH=../druntime-2.066.1

Any difference from the make arguments you used? What OS?