Dear Stéphane, > But I now understand the problem: unison2.40.102 uses Obj.magic (i.e. an > unsafe coercion) to cast a format string into a string. The previous > unison version was compiled with OCaml 4.01.0, where format strings were > indeed strings. The new version was compiled with OCaml 4.02.3, where it > is no longer the case. unison2.32.52 should suffer from the same problem.
Uhh, thanks for tracking this down. > The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm > not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more. That would be a pity. > Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with > previous Debian releases, but another change in OCaml 4.02 makes it Unfortunately I am even running old-stable, but till now had no problems using 2.40 with the unison from old-stable. I will need to look into that how I can keep that running. Thanks a lot and all the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
