Le lundi 06 septembre 2021 à 10:44 +0200, Stéphane Glondu a écrit : > Le 06/09/2021 à 10:08, Julien Puydt a écrit : > > > How come this is an issue only now? The transition to OCaml > > > 4.11.1 > > > (the > > > first version with unsafe strings disabled in Debian) was done > > > last > > > November... > > > > Very good question. I just checked: scilab 6.1.0 didn't need unsafe > > strings ; 6.1.1 does. > > This goes against evolution. New code should not need unsafe strings. > Is > a (tentative) source package for 6.1.1 available? I can have a closer > look... >
The configure script checks for the availability of the switch, and adds it to OCAMLCFLAGS... I checked String.set doesn't seem to be used and String.blit only once, so perhaps there's something simple to do. My current packaging is available here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/scilab > > Is phasing out unsafe strings an OCaml upstream decision? > > Yes. Sigh... that wouldn't be the first time scilab upstream does something like this... Cheers, J.Puydt
