On Tue, Jun 18 2019, ygrek <yg...@autistici.org> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:34:41 +0100 > Anil Madhavapeddy <a...@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. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
