OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Damien Doligez]

Dear OCaml users,

It is our pleasure to announce that release 3.11.1 is imminent.  We have
uploaded a release candidate at this address:

< http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.11/ocaml-3.11.1+rc0.tar.gz >

See the list of changes below.


We need you to test this on as many system types as possible.  Please
report success or failure to <damien.doligez@inria.fr> as usual.

-- Damien


Objective Caml 3.11.1:
----------------------

Bug fixes:
- PR#4095: ocamldebug: strange behaviour of control-C
- PR#4403: ocamldebug: improved handling of packed modules
- PR#4650: Str.regexp_case_fold mis-handling complemented character  
sets [^a]
- PR#4660: Scanf.format_from_string: handling of double quote
- PR#4666: Unix.exec* failure in multithread programs under MacOS X  
and FreeBSD
- PR#4667: debugger out of sync with dynlink changes
- PR#4678: random "out of memory" error with systhreads
- PR#4690: issue with dynamic loading under MacOS 10.5
- PR#4692: wrong error message with options -i and -pack passed to  
ocamlc
- PR#4699: in otherlibs/dbm, fixed construction of dlldbm.so.
- PR#4704: error in caml_modify_generational_global_root()
- PR#4708: (ocamldoc) improved printing of infix identifiers such as  
"lor".
- PR#4722: typo in configure script
- PR#4729: documented the fact that PF_INET6 is not available on all  
platforms
- PR#4730: incorrect typing involving abbreviation "type 'a t = 'a"
- PR#4731: incorrect quoting of arguments passed to the assembler on  
x86-64
- PR#4735: Unix.LargeFile.fstat cannot report size over 32bits on Win32
- PR#4740: guard against possible processor error in
            {Int32,Int64,Nativeint}.{div,rem}
- PR#4745: type inference wrongly produced non-generalizable type  
variables.
- PR#4749: better pipe size for win32unix
- PR#4756: printf: no error reported for wrong format '%_s'
- PR#4758: scanf: handling of \<newline> by format '%S'
- PR#4766: incorrect simplification of some type abbreviations.
- PR#4768: printf: %F does not respect width and precision  
specifications
- PR#4769: Format.bprintf fails to flush
- PR#4775: compiler crash on crazy types (temporary fix)
- PR#4776: bad interaction between exceptions and classes
- PR#4780: labltk build problem under Windows.
- PR#4790: under Windows, map ERROR_NO_DATA Win32 error to EPIPE Unix  
error.
- PR#4792: bug in Big_int.big_int_of_int64 on 32-bit platforms.
- Module Parsing: improved computation of locations when an ocamlyacc  
rule
                   starts with an empty nonterminal
- Type-checker: fixed wrong variance computation for private types
- x86-32 code generator, MSVC port: wrong "fld" instruction generated.
- ocamlbuild: incorrectly using the compile-time value of $OCAMLLIB
- Makefile problem when configured with -no-shared-libs
- ocamldoc: use dynamic loading in native code

Other changes:
- Improved wording of various error messages
   (contributed by Jonathan Davies, Citrix).
- Support for 64-bit mode in Solaris/x86 (PR#4670).

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Stéphane Glondu]

Damien Doligez a écrit :
> We need you to test this on as many system types as possible.  Please
> report success or failure to <damien.doligez@inria.fr> as usual.

It looks like ocamlbuild plugins do not work anymore... maybe because
`ocamlbuild -where` now points to the same location as `ocamlc -where`.

-- 
Stéphane

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Richard Jones]

If anyone would like to try out this release candidate in Fedora, I'm
currently rebuilding everything in Fedora 12.  You can find the
updated packages in dist-f12 or through Koji, starting with the base
compiler here:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1370751

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

camlp5 fails with 3.11.1 (was: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0)

[Richard Jones]

I guess I'll just note the problems we encounter as follow-ups
to this thread, so they're easy to find.

The first problem is with camlp5:

  $ ./configure
  Sorry: the compatibility with ocaml version "3.11.1+rc0"
  is not yet implemented. Please report.
  Configuration failed.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

ocaml-ulex fails (because of ocamlbuild change/problem?)

[Richard Jones]

ocaml ulex 1.1 fails with:

ocamlbuild -byte-plugin pa_ulex.cma ulexing.cma
Failure: Cannot find "ocamlbuildlib.cma" in ocamlbuild -where directory.
make: *** [all] Error 2


-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

Re: camlp5 fails with 3.11.1 (was: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0)

[Daniel de Rauglaudre]

Hi,

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:36:08AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:

> The first problem is with camlp5:
>   $ ./configure
>   Sorry: the compatibility with ocaml version "3.11.1+rc0"
>   is not yet implemented. Please report.

Ok, I am going to make a release. I announce it when ready.

-- 
Daniel de Rauglaudre
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/

camlp5 5.12 compatible with ocaml 3.11.1

[Daniel de Rauglaudre]

Hi everybody!

Camlp5 5.12 has been released, compatible with ocaml version 3.11.1.
Download at:
  http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp5/

Enjoy!

-- 
Daniel de Rauglaudre
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/

ocaml-lwt fails (same error with ocamlbuild)

[Richard Jones]

This is the error:

sed -e 's/@VERSION@/1.1.0/' META.in > META
ocamlbuild src/lwt.cma src/lwt_extra.cma src/lwt_preemptive.cma src/lwt_ssl.cma
Failure: Cannot find "ocamlbuildlib.cmxa" in ocamlbuild -where directory.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

Re: [Caml-list] camlp5 5.12 compatible with ocaml 3.11.1

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:23:18AM +0200, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> Camlp5 5.12 has been released, compatible with ocaml version 3.11.1.
> Download at:
>   http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp5/

Thanks - that seems to have done the trick.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Nicolas Pouillard]

Excerpts from Stéphane Glondu's message of Fri May 22 11:41:40 +0200 2009:
> Damien Doligez a écrit :
> > We need you to test this on as many system types as possible.  Please
> > report success or failure to <damien.doligez@inria.fr> as usual.
> 
> It looks like ocamlbuild plugins do not work anymore... maybe because
> `ocamlbuild -where` now points to the same location as `ocamlc -where`.

I've committed a patch to fix exactly this, thanks for the report!

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:47:34AM +0200, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> Excerpts from Stéphane Glondu's message of Fri May 22 11:41:40 +0200 2009:
> > Damien Doligez a écrit :
> > > We need you to test this on as many system types as possible.  Please
> > > report success or failure to <damien.doligez@inria.fr> as usual.
> > 
> > It looks like ocamlbuild plugins do not work anymore... maybe because
> > `ocamlbuild -where` now points to the same location as `ocamlc -where`.
> 
> I've committed a patch to fix exactly this, thanks for the report!

I backported this to Fedora, and it fixes the ulex & lwt build
problems.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Richard Jones]

We finished upgrading the library packages in Fedora 12, and the only
remaining problem is with ocamlduce which hasn't been ported yet.

The current package status is available here:

http://cocan.org/fedora#Package_status

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml version 3.11.1+rc0

[Stéphane Glondu]

Richard Jones a écrit :
> We finished upgrading the library packages in Fedora 12, and the only
> remaining problem is with ocamlduce which hasn't been ported yet.

I've merged changes from 3.11.1+rc0, and tagged it 3.11.1.0rc0 on ocamlcore:

http://git.ocamlcore.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ocamlduce/ocamlduce.git

I won't make a release (with tarball) before the final 3.11.1, but you
can still try it if you want (have a look at README.ocamlduce first to
know how to deal with git checkouts).


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane