Re: OCaml 4.08.0 and later...
Le 02/08/2019 à 14:30, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
>>> - a patch to change the behaviour of -custom, which has been rejected
>>> upstream because they don't want people to use -custom (the error being
>>> stripping such binaries would remove also the bytecode)
>>
>> Are we having packages that are built using -custom ? Otherwise it
>> is probably not that important.
>
> I don't know. Are we OK to declare this as buggy from now on?
There has been an interesting development on this topic.
It turns out dune uses -custom to generate executables on bytecode
architectures. I complained about that in [1] and miraculously the
feature is not deprecated any more. There is even an effort to integrate
my patch upstream now [2].
[1] https://github.com/ocaml/dune/issues/2505
[2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8872
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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