Re: [Caml-list] ocamlrun-<version> [was : Any idea about Ocaml 3.07 release date?]

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:45:59AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:27:58AM +0100, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> > > Sven Luther writes:
> > > 
> > >    > I use Debian, but I never install the ocaml packages (sorry to
> > >    > admit that). Instead I install every ocaml version in its own
> > >    
> > >    BTW, why don't you use the packages ?
> > >    
> > > Because they are years behind. Until last week I had
> > > Debian/Potato. It comes with Ocaml 2.04 from November 1999! Now I
> > > upgraded to unstable (which is enough bleeding edge for me) and
> > > there I find 3.04 from December 2001.
> > 
> > That can't be, you upgraded to either woody or testing. unstable has
> > 3.06, and the only reason it hasn't entered testing yet, is because it
> > was built with glibc 2.3.1, which is not (yet) ready for testing.
> > 
> > Stefano announced woody backport of the debian/unstable packages on this
> > list on September 22. These should work for either testing or woody. 
> 
> I belive trying to link programs (one of bytecode or native, I don't
> remember which) using ocaml compiled with old glibc on system running
> new glibc will cause undefined reference to __c_type_something, at least
> on my PLD box. So this backport is probably not going to work with
> testing.

Yes, sure, i was hit by this problem also in september, when the new
glibc hit unstable.

However, woody and testing have the same glibc, the new glibc is
currently only available in unstable, that is way there is no problem
using the woody backport on testing. If it were not so, you could use
the unstable packages on testing without problems.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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