On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:00:53PM -0400, Breno Leitao wrote: > Currently, the package ocaml-native-compilers is not being built for ppc64el > because the patch to enable it still not available in version 4.02.3. > > Starting at version 4.03, the patch to enable native compiler on ppc64el is > integrated into the source code (SVN revision 16374) and [1], thus, I would > like to have package omcal-native-compilers targeting ppc64el. > > OcamL native compiler is required to be enable in order to enable hhvm > package, > which build-depends on ocaml-native-compilers.
why does hhvm build-depend on ocaml-native-compiler? Packages should (build-)depend on ocaml-best-compilers, which is provided by -native-compilers on architectures where it exists, and by -nox on others. -Ralf.
