Hello, first: i know ocaml 3.07-r1 is masked on amd64,but i merged it nevertheless as i supposed it better than the unmasked ocaml-3.07_beta2. ocaml-3.07-r1 seems to work,but more complex applications (mldonkey is the one i noticed) segfault,when compiled. (as Ocaml programs cannot segfault by their own fault it must be an compiler error). i fetched the latest version of ocaml via cvs, compiled it,recompiled mldonkey (a bit patched to work with ocaml cvs..they changed some internals (only function names)) and it worked without noticeable error. so whould be nice if some cvs snapshot of ocaml could be included in the amd64 distro. PS: i know this bug sounds a bit strange,i won't be surprised if you reject it. PPS: sorry for bad english.
Hello What did you patched in mldonkey sources? I can't compile mldonkey against ocaml-cvs. regards Thomas
Created attachment 26581 [details, diff] patch for mldonkey 2.5.12 and ocaml-cvs (3.07+14 here)
Created attachment 26618 [details] ocaml cvs ebuild Hello Thanks for the patch. Seems to work. I added epatch "/usr/src/mldonkey-cvs.patch" to the src_compile section of the mldonkey ebuild and changed $Depend to >=dev-lang/ocaml-cvs-3.07. Now i have mldonkey back again on my 64bit system. Great. regards Thomas
Kugelfang reports a working version now in portage...
mldonkey still not working...
The current CVS head version of ocaml can't compile current mldonkey releases (nor CVS) as much has changed in some API's, and the current ocaml-3.07 version can't build a working mldonkey version either (tried release and CVS version) (thanks to Kugelfang for box sharing, btw :). So the only solution i see is having an ebuild for the particular ocaml snapshot it worked with (+14 it seems). I dutyfully reported the bugs of mldonkey/amd64 on mldonkey's bugzilla, where some gentoo guy already did it, but i wouldn't expect a corrected version too early. What are we doing ?
As it creates bad code, i will mask <=dev-lang/ocaml-3.07-r1 now -amd64.
what about the patch for mldonkey 2.5.12? doesn't it apply anymore? can it be modified to work with ocaml-cvs?
This is not the bug about mldonkey, this is an ocaml bug. It does produce object code that causes other bugs, so we won't mark it testing. We know already it's borked. You are free to unmask it yourself by echo "dev-lang/ocaml ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Please understand this. As soon as 3.08 is out (or a -pre version of it), I will add it to portage.
3.08 is out but it's incompatible and nothing will work with it. i've also talked to the ocaml dude and it seems that this is a bug in mldonkey. ocaml has been re-keyword and i've tested that it works with unison and coq, at the suggetion of mattam. both seem to work.
Can someone help me apply the patch. The ebuild for 2.5.12 has apparently been removed so I downloaded the source for it and the patch that was posted here for 2.5.12. If I issue the command patch -p0 -E -s <./mldonkey-cvs.patch It asks me which file to patch. What should I tell it here? Also, does anybody have any updated info on the status of ocaml and mldonkey for x86_64? Thanks.
2.5.27 (latest cvs) works fine with ocaml 3.08.0 here....
