Hi all,

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

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:

Pascal