On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 08:43:10AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8310
> 
> I'm rebuilding OCaml 4.08.0 beta 3 into a side tag.  This is a
> preliminary rebuild only - I'll do the real rebuild when 4.08.0 is
> finally released.  This email has interim results.
> 
> * ocaml-camlp4, ocaml-camlp5 (macro packages)
> 
> Still waiting for these to be ported to 4.08.  I had a go at porting
> camlp4 but the changes were beyond my skills, so we'll have to wait
> for someone that knows what they're doing.  Unfortunately lack of
> these packages blocks about a third of the other packages.
> 
> * ocaml-zarith (integer arithmetic library)
> 
> Fails to build the final zq binary.  I'm not sure this is related to
> the compiler upgrade at all, could be an unrelated FTBFS.
> 
> * ocaml-camomile (Unicode)
> * ocaml-benchmark (timing & benchmarking)
> 
> Both of these enable warn-error for deprecated code, and fail because
> the new compiler emits more deprecation warnings (which turn into
> errors).  I will have a go and see if I can remove the warn-error for
> both these packages later.

ocaml-yojson also needs attention.

However the greater problem is lack of camlp4/p5 which as mentioned
above blocks a lot of packages, so I guess we'll need to wait for
those to be ported.

Rich.

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