Currently, if AUTO_BOOTSTRAP=1 flag is passed to the make command for dmd, an existing dmd build is downloaded off of the Net into a temporary directory and used to bootstrap building the compiler.

This is great for machines that either don't have dmd or have an older version installed.

However, there's no easy way to _continue_ auto-bootstrapping, i.e. using the just-built dmd to build the "next" dmd. For that we need a few simple changes such as making temporary copies of dmd etc.

Is this a model that would be of interest to dmd contributors?


Andrei