OCaml packages in Rawhide (was: Re: rawhide report: 20140717 changes)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:08:02AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> There is a code generator bug in the new Common Subexpression
> Elimination (CSE) pass in the compiler which affects armv7hl and
> aarch64 (but not x86).  This bug is being worked on by Mark Shinwell,
> who is one of the upstream committers.  As an interim workaround until
> upstream comes up with a proper fix, I have patched the OCaml compiler
> to disable the CSE pass on %{arm} & aarch64.  This works fine in that
> the code generated is correct but a little less optimal.

It looks as if we have a fix for this now[1], so that means I
will be able to add the fix before building the other packages.

Rich.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/127c288ae598c852688fd3006b9e073c6cd38371

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