Hi Le dimanche 29 août 2021 à 14:14 +0200, Stéphane Glondu a écrit : > Control: tags 993045 + wontfix > > Le 26/08/2021 à 21:42, Julien Puydt a écrit : > > a part of scilab (modelica) is written in OCaml, but needs the - > > unsafe- > > string switch ; unfortunately: > > > > /usr/bin/ocaml: OCaml has been configured with -force-safe-string: > > - > > unsafe-string is not available. > > The -unsafe-string switch is obsolete and will eventually disappear; > its > unavailability is upstream default behavior. scilab should be fixed > to > not need it (and this should be done upstream). > > > Can you please re-enable unsafe strings? > > No. > > How come this is an issue only now? The transition to OCaml 4.11.1 > (the > first version with unsafe strings disabled in Debian) was done last > November...
Very good question. I just checked: scilab 6.1.0 didn't need unsafe strings ; 6.1.1 does. Is phasing out unsafe strings an OCaml upstream decision? Cheers, J.Puydt
