[m-dev.] for review: making bootstrap.h effectively empty

[Simon Taylor]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:25:38PM +1100, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
> The compiler now bootstraps with this change.
> 
> runtime/mercury_bootstrap.h:
> 	Make this file define nothing unless MR_EXTRA_BACKWARDS_COMPAT is
> 	defined. This should help keep our system namespace clean.

This change will cause problems compiling the source distribution
with compilers from before the last lot of runtime namespace changes
(January 15). The code in configure.in which tests whether the
installed compiler is up-to-date will succeed for compilers from
November 18 onwards.

Simon.
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