Ocaml-devel July 2021

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Excluding various ocamlx() dependencies in Fedora OCaml packages
by Richard W.M. Jones 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Some ocamlx dependencies, notably ocamlx(Dynlink) are not very stable between rebuilds of OCaml even of the same version. I'm unclear why this is exactly, but I am currently rebuilding many ocaml packages broken by the Fedora mass rebuild for this exact reason. I think therefore we should modify the /usr/lib/rpm/ocamldeps.sh to ignore these troublesome dependencies. A simple thing to do for now would be (untested): $ diff -ur ocamldeps.sh ocamldeps.sh.new --- ocamldeps.sh 2021-07-27 21:54:47.673109249 +0100 +++ ocamldeps.sh.new 2021-07-27 22:00:34.917707988 +0100 @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ } # mode= -ignore_implementation_a=() +ignore_implementation_a=(Dynlink) ignore_interface_a=() while test "$#" -gt 0 do which should have the effect of ignoring ocamlx(Dynlink) across all modules. Obviously this would need a rebuild of all packages, so something to consider when OCaml 4.13 comes out. Thoughts on this? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v

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Seems like maybe the coq / ephemeron thing has been fixed?
by Richard W.M. Jones 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/9391 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/4716c8e063604b6a9788f36da32c16ba02251… We should pick it up in OCaml 4.13 and I'll try rebuilding Coq with it at that time. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

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META files
by Jerry James 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

I would like to draw attention to this issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982933 It appears that some META files, at least, need to be in the main package, not in -devel. We've been inconsistent about this. Some OCaml packages have META in the main package, and some in -devel. I also see that the latest ocaml-lablgtk3 build failed to build documentation correctly because it looked for %{_libdir}/ocaml/ocamldoc/META and failed to find it. Does the main ocaml package build generate a META file for ocamldoc? Regards, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/

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