On Tue, Jun 18 2019, ygrek <ygrek@autistici.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:34:41 +0100
> Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
>
>> I think this approach is fine for this particular package, since upstream lags in recent times.
>>
>> The opam package for mldonkey is on ocaml<4.06, but I'm CCing the current maintainer Ygrek in case there is a 4.08 port in the offing.
>
> 4.08 support depends on camlp4 which is not yet available.
> I am maintaining git repository at github.com/ygrek/mldonkey - it builds fine with 4.07
ygrek: I guess you're waiting for diml (https://github.com/diml) to
chime in.
ygrek, chrisz: are there other known ocaml-4.08 problems in mldonkey,
except for a compatible camlp4 release?
>> > Mldonkey in difficult to adapt to the new 4.08.0 release of OCaml.
>> > Its build system has the option to build against a private build of
>> > OCaml 3.12 and a copy of lablgtk.
>> > I adapted the port to use this option and therefore get rid of the
>> > dependency on a system wide OCaml installation.
>> > Tested to build and start up on amd64.
>> > Not tested on bytecode-only archs.
>> >
>> > Is this the way to go? OK to commit?
>> > Is this port still in use?
>
> I don't think this is a good way forward if that package is used on non-x86 archs, there were many bugs there in older ocaml versions.
Seconded.
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