OCaml 4.00.1 for Fedora 18

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:20:33AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:16:12 +0000
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Unfortunately we found a bug in the code generator:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877128
> > 
> > It seems likely (comment 20) that a patch which already went into
> > OCaml 4.00.1 upstream some months ago fixes this.  However it requires
> > that every OCaml package be rebuilt in Fedora 18 (since all of them
> > potentially are using the invalid register).  This isn't ideal, but I
> > can't see any other way around it.
> > 
> > I'm going to start this process, where possible just merging commits
> > from Rawhide to keep the git history nice and clean.
> 
> Nasty. ;( 
> 
> Would it be possible for you (or someone) to coordinate and put all
> these builds into one update?

Yes, I'll add them all to this update:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ocaml-findlib-1.3.3-3.fc18,ocaml-4.00.1-1.fc18
(that link will probably go stale unfortunately ...)

There will probably be about 70-80 packages in all.  I'm planning
to do the others tomorrow.

> That way we could see about pulling them
> all in as a NTH before release. If they are a bunch of scattered
> updates it could be much harder to make sure we don't miss any. 
>
> Also, someone would need to nominate this bug for that process: 
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process#Proposing_nice-to-have_bugs

I think I've done it right?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877128

Rich.

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