Heads up: OCaml 4.02.2+rc1 coming to Rawhide

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:14:36PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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

Well I don't know how to do that, so there we go.  In any case, the
breakage will only last a few days.

Rich.

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