Hi all,

there was a thread earlier this summer on the topic of the bootstrap:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/a39e6699f0c5043d

I should add a tidbit of information that took me a while
to figure out to the information there. The information from
the thread is:

"look at the comment 'Hard bootstrap how-to' in the toplevel
Makefile of the OCaml [CVS] distribution"

The additional tidbit is:

if you are trying to add a new primitive, try splitting the patch
in two parts, the part that contains the C primitive (the
"CAMLprim ..." in a .c file) and the part that makes it visible
from caml (the "external ..." in an .ml file). Apply the first patch
only first, bootstrap, apply the second one and bootstrap again.

I did not see this information explicitly documented anywhere,
but it was implicitly contained in the following web page:
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~henry/marshal/index.en.html

Pascal