[fedora-arm] FYI: New OCaml ARM code generator

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> All sounds really cool.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > I'm in the process of backporting the new, rewritten OCaml ARM code
>> > generator to OCaml 3.12.1.  This may necessitate recompiling all OCaml
>> > packages in ARM, but I'll also start on that tomorrow.
>>
>> Basically for this you need to push the changes to mainline and
>> koji-shadow will pull it all in and deal with it. It builds all
>> packages with at least the NVR of any packages it was built with so it
>> will handle all the build ordering etc. I can send you the details of
>> any failures of that if you like from the logs as it runs though.
>
> OK, but I'll probably do a few builds by hand to check this new
> code generator works ...

You can use scratch-builds without issue, the problem with doing
manual builds is that if there's a soname bump it all ends up in a
mess.

Peter