• H. S. Teoh (15/15) May 10 2020 After updating to the latest git master, trying to build dmd aborts with
• Steven Schveighoffer (3/18) May 10 2020 What is your bootstrapping compiler? Maybe something changed there.
• H. S. Teoh (7/25) May 24 2020 [...]
• Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] (6/20) May 11 2020 I'm using a script that I have written [1] to

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

After updating to the latest git master, trying to build dmd aborts with
this error:

-------
ERROR: Error: pointer cast from `dmd.mtype.TypeTuple` to
`immutable(void*)**` is not supported at compile time
       called from here: `super.this()`
dmd/mtype.d(6228):        called from here: `super.this(cast(ubyte)37u)`

make[1]: *** [posix.mak:110: dmd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/d/dmd/src'
make: *** [posix.mak:8: all] Error 2
-------

What gives?


T

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Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On 5/10/20 11:54 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 After updating to the latest git master, trying to build dmd aborts with
 this error:
 
 -------
 ERROR: Error: pointer cast from `dmd.mtype.TypeTuple` to
 `immutable(void*)**` is not supported at compile time
         called from here: `super.this()`
 dmd/mtype.d(6228):        called from here: `super.this(cast(ubyte)37u)`
 
 make[1]: *** [posix.mak:110: dmd] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/d/dmd/src'
 make: *** [posix.mak:8: all] Error 2
 -------
 
 What gives?

What is your bootstrapping compiler? Maybe something changed there.

-Steve

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:25:18PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
 On 5/10/20 11:54 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 After updating to the latest git master, trying to build dmd aborts
 with this error:
 
 -------
 ERROR: Error: pointer cast from `dmd.mtype.TypeTuple` to
 `immutable(void*)**` is not supported at compile time
         called from here: `super.this()`
 dmd/mtype.d(6228):        called from here: `super.this(cast(ubyte)37u)`
 
 make[1]: *** [posix.mak:110: dmd] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/d/dmd/src'
 make: *** [posix.mak:8: all] Error 2
 -------
 
 What gives?

 
 What is your bootstrapping compiler? Maybe something changed there.

[...]

What's the earliest supported bootstrapping compiler? I'm using 2.079
as the bootstrapper (which hasn't changed for a long time).


T

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Famous last words: I *think* this will work...

Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] <petar.p.kirov gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 10 May 2020 at 15:54:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 After updating to the latest git master, trying to build dmd 
 aborts with this error:

 -------
 ERROR: Error: pointer cast from `dmd.mtype.TypeTuple` to
 `immutable(void*)**` is not supported at compile time
        called from here: `super.this()`
 dmd/mtype.d(6228):        called from here: 
 `super.this(cast(ubyte)37u)`

 make[1]: *** [posix.mak:110: dmd] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/d/dmd/src'
 make: *** [posix.mak:8: all] Error 2
 -------

 What gives?


 T

I'm using a script that I have written [1] to 
clone/update/clean/build the core repos on Linux and everything 
works for me.

[1]: 
https://gist.github.com/PetarKirov/f36452fbb20d1a3a62cec3b61ea49e24