Re: [Chicken-users] booting from old Chickens

[John Cowan]

Frank scripsit:

> My point was to inform you (and Felix, who requested info on 2.315 
> installation results) that installation - means bootstrapping - works w/ 
> the mentioned tool chain, which again means no bootstrapping from old 
> versions required at all w/ the mentioned tool chain. Maybe I just 
> missed the point of your exercise ;)

When you fetch the darcs head, you don't get the C versions of all the
various Scheme files, including the compiler, so you need to have
an existing csc on the system to even start.  This doesn't affect
people who are installing a tarball, but if you are trying to
install the current head, the issue is how old the installed
compiler can be before it doesn't work.

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