[M3devel] RELENG again, was: Re: the LONGINT proposal

[Tony Hosking]

On 13 Jan 2010, at 04:43, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:
> 
>> On 11 Jan 2010, at 23:09, Randy Coleburn wrote:
>> 
>>> Also, in case anyone is interested, the current HEAD fails to  compile the following packages on Windows Vista:
>>> "m3-libs\m3core"
>>> "m3-libs\libm3"
>>> "m3-tools\m3tk"
>>> So some recent changes have caused a problem.
>> 
>> Did you bootstrap a new compiler?  You will need to bootstrap a  compiler before you can compile the revised ORD/VAL definitions.
> 
> So if I understand this correctly, should we finally get to release
> 5.8, then this compiler won't be able to compile the current trunk
> head? That is, not unless we merge this change to the release branch?

Correct.  I suggest we merge the changes to avoid inconsistency.  This will be the first official release with LONGINT in it so let's make sure we make it right before anyone starts actually using it...

> 
> Anything else that we should do for 5.8?
> 
> Olaf
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