On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:08:06AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
As far as bootstrapping is concerned, the OCaml sources include
precompiled (bytecode) executables that are used in a first stage of
the
build process (i.e. ocaml doesn't build-depend on itself). So no need
for cross-compilation there. OCaml has very few build-dependencies
(there are Tcl/Tk/libX11, but they are optional) and should always be
buildable natively.
Wait, wait, wait... so OCaml ships precompiled binaries and runs them
during
the build? It seems so, as it FTBFSes if you remove the binaries from
boot/.