• Pjotr Prins (10/10) Mar 11 2018 The GNU package manager updated LDC to 1.7.0 which now provides
• Johan Engelen (9/17) Mar 11 2018 Kai has been working recently [1] on updating LDC 0.17.x
• Pjotr Prins (5/11) Mar 11 2018 Sure thing. Guix can support multiple versions of LLVM and build

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 thebird.nl> writes:

The GNU package manager updated LDC to 1.7.0 which now provides 
x86_64-linux, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/. 
Runtime dependencies and build are listed at 
https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2525193#tabs-runtime-deps, including 
0.17.4 (bootstrap) and LLVM 3.8.1.

LDC 0.17.4 provides x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux.

We aim to add D compilers for all supported architectures.

Note that GNU Guix can run on top of all Linux distributions 
because it is self-contained. Guix includes all its dependencies 
(except the kernel) and can be removed easily.

Johan Engelen <j j.nl> writes:

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 08:43:25 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
 The GNU package manager updated LDC to 1.7.0 which now provides 
 x86_64-linux, see 
 https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/. Runtime 
 dependencies and build are listed at 
 https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2525193#tabs-runtime-deps, 
 including 0.17.4 (bootstrap) and LLVM 3.8.1.

 LDC 0.17.4 provides x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux.

 We aim to add D compilers for all supported architectures.

Kai has been working recently [1] on updating LDC 0.17.x 
(ltsmaster) to work with LLVM 6, PowerPC, AArch64, ...  You may 
want to take advantage of that activity to get better bootstrap 
compiler support for your platforms. For example by filing bug 
reports, or better: helping out with testing and fixing things ;-)

-Johan

[1] See e.g. 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/dmd-testsuite/pull/34

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 thebird.nl> writes:

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 12:41:28 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
 Kai has been working recently [1] on updating LDC 0.17.x 
 (ltsmaster) to work with LLVM 6, PowerPC, AArch64, ...  You may 
 want to take advantage of that activity to get better bootstrap 
 compiler support for your platforms. For example by filing bug 
 reports, or better: helping out with testing and fixing things 
 ;-)

Sure thing. Guix can support multiple versions of LLVM and build 
against those, so you can inject different dependencies (read 
versions of LLVM) in the dependency graph. I am quite keen to use 
the latest for my tools.