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

[Olaf Wagner]

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?

Anything else that we should do for 5.8?

Olaf
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