Re: RFS: ocaml-obuild/0.1.8-1

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

Hi,

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:40:40PM +0800, Andy Li wrote:

> I have just updated ocaml-migrate-parsetree to latest upstream release in
> salsa.
> However, when I test build it in mips, there was an error:
> 
> 
>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>      opam : Depends: libuutf-ocaml-giwq0 which is a virtual package and is not
>     provided by any available package
> 
>      libjsonm-ocaml : Depends: libuutf-ocaml-giwq0 which is a virtual package
>     and is not provided by any available package
> 
>     Unable to resolve dependencies!  Giving up...
> 
> 
> Do you have any idea?

looks like some package needs recompilation on the autobuilders. mips
autobuilders are somtimes lacking behind the others.

Independent of this issue, we probably should package an opam installer
which allows to install stuff according to an opam specification,
without all the rest [1]. This would mean that we can avoid dependence
on opam.

-Ralf

[1] https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list/c0eacdc1-26e0-dd90-f1d7-74891890e319@kerguelen.org/