Heads up: OCaml 4.02.2+rc1 coming to Rawhide

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 13:14:36 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm going to upload OCaml 4.02.2+rc1 to Rawhide.  Mostly this is lots
> and lots of incremental compiler fixes, but there are a few
> highlights:
>
>  - includes libasmrun_shared.so which makes it easier to build plugins
>    written in native OCaml (RHBZ#1195025)
>
>  - fixes an aarch64 codegen bug (RHBZ#1224815)
>
>  - aarch64 stack traces now work in gdb [but we've been carrying a
>    patch for this for a while in 4.02.1, so it's been fixed already in
>    Fedora]
>
> This will break the dependencies of lots of OCaml packages in Rawhide
> (probably).  I will run my script to rebuild the ones that need to be
> rebuilt.

It would be nice if this could be done in a side tag so there isn't a
lot of breakage in rawhide and then once it's all built rel-eng can
tag them all over to f-23 in a single operation

Peter


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