[m-users.] 22.01 beta release available

[Fabrice Nicol]

This is because you have relatively fresh,  intermediate bootstrapping
compilers that enable you to build ROTDs. Once in a while, this build chain
breaks down unless you update your bootstrapping compiler itself.

Le dim. 23 janv. 2022 à 10:44 PM, M McDonough <foolkingcrown at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, "Zoltan Somogyi" <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> said:
> > 2022-01-24 03:21 GMT+11:00 "Fabrice Nicol" <fabrnicol at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi Julien,
> > >
> > > You need a working (i.e, actually, "quite fresh & working") Mercury
> compiler to build this beta release:
> > >
> > > looking for an already installed Mercury compiler to bootstrap with...
> > > checking for mmc... no
> > > configure: error: You need a working Mercury compiler to bootstrap with
> > >
> >
> > Did you by chance download and try to install the latest ROTD,
> > instead of the beta release? For the ROTD, needing a working
> > Mercury compiler is quite standard.
>
> Are you sure? I was 99% sure that ROTDs have always been packaged with
> the resulting C files already built. I've been using them to bootstrap
> a Mercury toolchain on systems without an existing Mercury compiler
> for years now, and they've been extremely useful for that since
> otherwise I would need to build multiple intermediate toolchains to
> get from release to trunk.
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