Bug#935947: stretch-pu: package llvm-toolchain-7 7.0.1-8~deb9u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 12:53 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> I'd like to introduce llvm-toolchain-7 into stretch, as it's needed
> to update rustc to 1.34.2, which in turn is needed for firefox ESR
> 68.
> 
> I have already uploaded the package, which is a straight backport
> from the buster version (see attached debdiff) and I have used it to
> backport rustc (and used that to build firefox) and it's working
> well.
> 
> It'd be good to get this into the next point release to ease the
> firefox 68 ESR security updates, targetted for October.

That happened, and so far FTBFS on ppc64el and s390x, with an error
referencing an inability to find "ocamlopt".

I suspect that's due to this change in src:ocaml:

ocaml (4.03.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Add native compilers for ppc64, ppc64el, s390x.
  * Skip native tests on bytecode-only systems.

 -- Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>  Fri, 28 Oct 2016 02:13:18 +0200

stretch has ocaml 4.02.3-9.

Regards,

Adam