GDC 11 was the last version that could bootstrap without a D compiler,
and GDC don’t offer their own binaries any more. GCC 11 is now
end‐of‐life and being removed (as is GCC 12, even).
It’s possible that we could use another distribution’s binary
packages to bootstrap this, or go via our DMD package (it’s
apparently not possible to bootstrap GDC with LDC, but I’m not sure
about DMD), but as nobody has worked on it in the three years since
GCC 12 came out, it seems like interest is limited, and it’s more
of a yak shave than I’m up for right now.
A full from‐source bootstrap chain would of course be nice, but is
more the realm of the minimal bootstrap work than something we’d
want to keep GCC 11 around in the main package set indefinitely for.
This reverts commit 65a333600d.
This wasn't tested for correctness with something like fodwatch [0],
and should not have been (self-)merged so quickly, especially without
further review.
It also resulted in the breakage of at least one package [1] (and that's
the one we know of and was caught).
A few packages that were updated in between this commit and this revert
were not reverted back to using `rev`, but other than that, this is a
1:1 revert.
[0]: https://codeberg.org/raphaelr/fodwatch
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/396904 / 758551e458
