[bug#46806] [PATCH] gnu: ocaml-4.07: Bootstrap.

[zimoun]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 14:46, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
>
> We'd have to check we actually can build them. The plan was to build menhir 
> with this ocaml4.07, since it's required to generate the parser for ocaml >= 
> 4.08, and improve camlboot to support more recent versions. We would prevent 
> the need for a chain of bootstraps that way.

Thanks for the explanations.
I have tried to replace gcc by clang for camlboot but it fails.
And also tried other Scheme than Guile, obviously fails. :-)


> I don't think ocaml has so many dependants that it requires core-updates. Not 
> even sure it needs staging.

Oh right, I thought that more OCaml packages were in Guix. :-)

Cheers,
simon