Bug#1111281: stopped shipping nums.cmxa

[Pierre Gruet]

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Hi Stéphane,

Le 18/08/2025 à 07:44, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :

Control: reassign -1 src:scilab

Hi,

Le 16/08/2025 à 15:05, Pierre Gruet a écrit :

libnum-ocaml-dev 1.6-1 stopped shipping


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23 | open Num
           ^^^
Error: Unbound module "Num"

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I see the file /usr/lib/DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/ocaml/5.3/num/num.cmxa is now

same error message than above, and anyway that new file is almost empty.

/usr/lib/DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/ocaml/5.3/nums.cmxa, which caused scilab to FTBFS: ocamlopt -o modelicac -I ./src/modelica_compiler  nums.cmxa ./src/ modelica_compiler/parseTree.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/linenum.ml ./ src/modelica_compiler/parser.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/lexer.ml ./ src/modelica_compiler/precompilation.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/ compilation.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/instantiation.ml ./src/ modelica_compiler/graphNodeSet.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/ symbolicExpression.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/squareSparseMatrix.ml ./ src/modelica_compiler/bipartiteGraph.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/ hungarianMethod.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/causalityGraph.ml ./src/ modelica_compiler/optimization.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/ xMLCodeGeneration.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/optimizingCompiler.ml ./ src/modelica_compiler/scicosCodeGeneration.ml ./src/modelica_compiler/ scicosOptimizingCompiler.ml File "./src/modelica_compiler/symbolicExpression.ml", line 23, characters 5-8: shipped (instead?), but substituting it in the above command line causes the

This is an upstream change in ocaml-num. It should be transparent to packages using ocamlfind or dune. Can you change your call to "ocamlopt" by "ocamlfind ocamlopt -package num -linkpkg" ?

Thanks a lot for your kind suggestion, I confirm changing the call fixes the problem. I will discuss this with upstream!

Cheers,

All the best,

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Pierre

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