Re: ocaml 3.07beta2 is up at people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>:


> > I don't like this, it messes up the .diff.gz file with lot of useless
> > config* stuff. What is the best way to handling this ?
> 
> 
> Having upstream update their files more often, maybe .. :-)
> 
> As far as I have understood, having up-to-date files is important for
> porting issues, mostly on exotic architectures. I learned about this
> when I got FTBFS'ed because one of my package did not build anymore on
> ARM, IA64 or whatever.....

Those files are not used at all, that's why they are outdated.
Ocaml uses its own handwritten configure file. See ocaml-3.07/configure

Sven you don't have to bother with them.

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Jérôme Marant