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Re: [RFU] ocaml-4.00.1-1
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:27:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFU] ocaml-4.00.1-1
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Hi Damien,
On Jun 9 16:42, Damien Doligez wrote:
> On 2013-06-07, at 16:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Done. Any chance to try building a 64 bit version of ocaml, Damien?
>
> I'll be working on that, yes.
>
>
> On 2013-06-07, at 20:00, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>
> > Ouch. Because of the fickle nature of OCaml's ABI, all OCaml libraries have to be rebuilt for every version bump. While there not be much OCaml code in the distro, I have dozens of libraries in Ports which need to be rebuilt. Next time, could you please give me some rebuild time before stabilizing a new version of OCaml?
>
> Ah, sorry. I didn't realize there would be so many dependencies. Next time I'll warn you in advance.
Did you see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00160.html ?
Given what Yaakov said, wouldn't it make sense to provide the former
ocaml libs and start using a versioned runtime lib approach?
Thanks,
Corinna
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