Should be fixed in master. On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Marco Maggesi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I would like to give my tiny contribution to ZHF by fixing caml5 version > 5.15, e.g. > > http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixpkgs.ocamlPackages.camlp5_5_strict.x86_64-linux > > The problem is that camlp5 version 5.15 is old (kept because it is a > dependency of matita) and it is not compatible with ocaml 4.xx. > > Question: which is the right way to prevent hydra to build camlp5 with > recent versions of ocaml? > I suppose that there should be a "standard" approach for this kind of > problems. Is it? > > I see four choices: > > 1. raise an exception with an assert that compares the version of ocaml. > (An evaluation error is perhaps better than a compilation error anyway.) > 2. conditionally add camlp5_old to mkOcamlPackages. > 3. move camlp5_old out from mkOcamlPackages and compile camlp5_old for > exactly one version of ocaml (perhaps a good solution in this particular > case but not in other analogous cases). > 4. conditionally fill meta.platform in camlp5. > > Are there other possibilities? > Can you suggest which is better? > This seems to be a common problem (e.g., I have the same problem with the > blcr linux modules and with the openafs linux modules), I would like to > know if there is a general accepted strategy for this situation. > > Thanks, > Marco > > > 2014-09-19 19:30 GMT+02:00 Domen Kožar <[email protected]>: > >> Hi all, >> >> during NixOS sprint in Ljubljana I joined the effort to get build >> failures down to 0 for NixOS. >> >> We're current at 135 failing builds (down from 2500 before the sprint) >> for nixos-combined job. >> >> To see last failing builds, check: >> http://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1152694#tabs-still-fail >> >> I'll try to get those down to ~0 during the weekend, I'd like to >> encourage anyone willing to fix one or two builds to join in to achieve >> this milestone after a long period of time. >> >> Rock on! >> >> Domen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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