Comment 12 for bug 179878

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Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) wrote : Re: [Bug 179878] Re: Revision 1311 does not compile on Cygwin

On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:17 PM, leppie wrote:

> IMO, to prevent 'size' changes in the boot file to cause the build
> error, the makefile should check for an installed (and very likely
> still
> working) ikarus.

Revisions are sometimes not binary compatible so you cannot, in general,
use an older ikarus to build the newer one. You *need* the new one.
Plus, any new changes need to be tested. If you don't want to be
testing
the development version, you can always stick to the 0.0.2 release.