>Some other problem that occured to me is that precompilation in 7.8 does
>not work with a recent 7.9 because it requires the API version to be
>specified (version 3) on the command line. Maybe its enough to simply
>backport grubbas api version feature, or better make 7.9 precompile
>compatible with 7.8.
Do you have a list of the files that fail to precompile with 7.9?
The api feature is intentionally strict, since precompiling with the
wrong api version may cause strange errors that are first noticed
when the resulting binary is used.
/grubba