Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler for oCaml on System Z

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 04:35:53PM -0400, Bull Durham wrote:
> Hello. I'm with the IBM Linux on Z Open Source Ecosystem Center of
> Competency in Toronto. I would like to provide (and maintain) a port
> of the OCaml native compiler for Linux on System Z (a.k.a IBM 390 or
> s390x). Can someone advise me on whom to contact to begin
> discussions on how to make the port available to the wider OCaml
> community? Ideally it would be great if it could ultimately become
> part of the standard OCaml distribution.  Thanks for any advice you
> can give.

Could it be my wishes have come true .. :-?

While I'm not really in a position to help you with the actual port, I
can help you in another way: We would include an s/390x backend in
Fedora (initially) and RHEL (if it proved stable enough), and this
would give you a fair bit of real world testing.

We already include downstream backends for ppc64 & ppc64le, the latter
provided by IBM.

In order to actually do this, what you'd have to do is develop against
the upstream OCaml git repository: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
(fork it somewhere), and when you have a working backend, let me know
where that is by emailing my redhat.com address and I'll pull it into
Fedora.

Rich.