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 > > 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. --
