OCaml 4.10.0 beta1 was released upstream about a week ago (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1673688). I'm intending to build OCaml packages into a side tag starting today, and then if it seems to work well integrate it into F32.
The release notes for this are here: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/4.10/Changes Please note there are some incompatible changes. The ones which I think may affect Fedora are below (but there are more, please read the release notes in full): * #1859, #9117: enforce safe (immutable) strings by removing the -unsafe-string option by default. This can be overridden by a configure-time option (available since 4.04 in 2016): --disable-force-safe-string since 4.08, -no-force-safe-since between 4.07 and 4.04. I don't intend to enable this option in our build. If my greps are right there is one package (coccinelle) which is still hanging on to -unsafe-string. In the force-safe-string mode (now the default), the return type of the String_val macro in C stubs is `const char*` instead of `char*`. This change may break C FFI code. (Kate Deplaix) This will probably affect more packages, but is a trivial const-correctness fix. * #8713: Introduce a state table in the runtime to contain the global variables. (The Multicore runtime will have one such state for each domain.) This changes the name of some internal variables of the OCaml runtime; in many cases <caml/compatibility.h> provides a compatibility macro with the old name, but programs using runtime internals may need to be fixed. Properly written FFI extensions shouldn't hit this, but I imagine there will be some that are affected. I will try to fix these on a case by case basis. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
