On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 09:16:52AM -0400, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 at 03:39, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > We're planning to rebuild all the OCaml packages + dependencies with > the new OCaml 5 compiler (https://ocaml.org/releases/5.0.0). This has > a rewritten runtime system, and Jerry James has been doing amazing > work rebuilding everything in a COPR and fixing lots of issues > (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jjames/OCaml5/). > > There are however three issues with i686. Firstly there are some > issues with LTO, possibly solvable. Secondly there no native code > backend for i686. It has been dropped upstream and apparently they > have no plans to re-add it. > > (Native code backends for s390x, riscv64 and ppc64le are also dropped > in 5.0, but with plans to add those back in 5.1. They're just taking > their time to port these ones across to the new architecture.) > > > > I am not too worried about i686, but the above seems more concerning. What > happens with the tooling for this on these platforms? I believe that currently > the Fedora builders for Power use Fedora as the KVM server using various virt > tools which I believe are Ocaml based.
Hopefully nothing! It'll run the bytecode version which is slower, but should otherwise work. We could do this for i686 too, but the issue is there's *never* going to be a fast version again for i686. Rich. > > -- > Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive > Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- > Ian MacClaren > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
