Re: OCaml 3.09 bug

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:35:44PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:36:22 +0100
> > Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Oops, I should have read your message more carefully yesterday
> > > evening. I didn't read this PS, so I started to recompile OCaml, but
> > > I was too tired to wait until it finishes. More to come tonight, so.
> > > I hope it'll fix the issue, so that we will finally be able to upload
> > > cduce, camlgz and camlrpc.
> >
> > Okay, I just installed the patched OCaml provided by Samuel, and tried
> > to compile CDuce with it. However, as suggested by Serge, everything
> > needs to be recompiled:
> >
> > Build cduce
> > Files /usr/lib/ocaml/3.09.0/ulex/ulexing.cmxa
> > and /usr/lib/ocaml/3.09.0/stdlib.cmxa
> > make inconsistent assumptions over implementation Char
> >
> > I could recompile ulex, then something else, and so on. But it's a
> > never-ending task, considering the huge number of dependencies my
> > application (demexp) has.
> >
> > On IRC, Samuel suggests that we should maybe wait until 3.09.1, and if
> > I understand correctly, do a complete reupload.
> >
> > What do you think about it ?
>
> Just get the complete build-depend tree (the subtree affecting ocaml at least)
> and once we have a fix for this issue, we simply ask for binNMUs of all the
> involved packages. A new upload is way overkill for this issue.

Unfortunately, since the patch of ocaml seems to introduce binary 
incompatibilities, I'm afraid that *all* ocaml libraries will need to be 
rebuilt (that's quite a lot of binNMUs)...