> the latest news from my attempt to install 4.01. Following Simon's > advice I added `EXTRA_HC_OPTS += -H64M -fvia-c -v' to build.mk (I use > 4.00 for bootstrapping). Now, make boot succeeds, make all fails with [ bootstrapping problem ] Folks: We interupt your hacking to bring you this important announcement: We've changed the interface file format a few times recently, resulting in some bootstrapping problems. These problems are hopefully fixed for good, since we introduced an "Interface file format version" in 4.01 (that's what all the .hi-boot-5 files in the 4.01 dist are). The upshot is that 4.00 doesn't understand the convention, so building 4.01 with 4.00 will be problematic and require some hand-editing of .hi-boot files. Unless this is your idea of fun, I don't recommend it. Besides, 4.00 (and 4.01) has a pretty slow garbage collector, so you probably want to build 4.01 with 3.02. That's what we do. We now return to your regularly scheduled bootstrapping trauma reports. -- Simon Marlow Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge, U.K.
