Re: [Caml-list] Release candidate: 4.02.2+rc1

[Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>]

I've made a PR for opam to add the latest version of camlp4:
    https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/4241

-- Damien


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Simon Cruanes
<simon.cruanes.2007@m4x.org> wrote:
> I just tried
>
>     opam update
>     opam switch 4.02.2+rc1
>     eval `opam config env`
>     opam install oasis
>
> and got that message (camlp4 strikes again!):
>
>     The following dependencies couldn't be met:
>       - oasis -> extlib = 1.5.3 -> camlp4
>       - oasis -> ocaml-data-notation | ocaml-data-notation >= 0.0.11 ->
>     type_conv = 108.00.02 | type_conv >= 108.07.01 -> camlp4
>     Your request can't be satisfied:
>       - camlp4 is not available because it requires OCaml >= 4.03.0.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Le Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Damien Doligez a écrit :
>> Dear OCaml users,
>>
>> The release of OCaml version 4.02.2 is imminent.  We have
>> created a release candidate for your testing pleasure. It is very
>> easy to install and test with opam, just type:
>>     opam update
>>     opam switch 4.02.2+rc1
>>
>> We want to know about any show-stopping bugs, especially in the
>> compilation and installation phases.
>>
>> This release candidate is also available as source code at this
>> address: < https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/tarball/4.02.2+rc1 >
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>>
>> -- Damien Doligez for the OCaml team.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> OCaml 4.02.2:
>> -------------
>>
>> (Changes that can break existing programs are marked with a "*")
>>
>> Language features:
>> - PR#6583: add a new class of binary operators with the same syntactic
>>   precedence as method calls; these operators start with # followed
>>   by a non-empty sequence of operator symbols (for instance #+, #!?).
>>   It is also possible to use '#' as part of these extra symbols
>>   (for instance ##, or #+#); this is rejected by the type-checker,
>>   but can be used e.g. by ppx rewriters.
>>   (Alain Frisch, request by Gabriel Radanne)
>> * PR#6016: add a "nonrec" keyword for type declarations
>>   (Jérémie Dimino)
>>
>> Compilers:
>> - PR#6600: make -short-paths faster by building the printing map
>>   incrementally
>>   (Jacques Garrigue)
>> - PR#6642: replace $CAMLORIGIN in -ccopt with the path to cma or cmxa
>>   (Peter Zotov, Gabriel Scherer, review by Damien Doligez)
>> - PR#6797: new option -output-complete-obj
>>   to output an object file with included runtime and autolink libraries
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6845: -no-check-prims to tell ocamlc not to check primitives in runtime
>>   (Alain Frisch)
>> - GPR#149: Attach documentation comments to parse tree
>>   (Leo White)
>> - GPR#159: Better locations for structure/signature items
>>   (Leo White)
>>
>> Toplevel and debugger:
>> - PR#5958: generalized polymorphic #install_printer
>>   (Pierre Chambart and Grégoire Henry)
>>
>> OCamlbuild:
>> - PR#6237: explicit "infer" tag to control or disable menhir --infer
>>   (Hugo Heuzard)
>> - PR#6625: pass -linkpkg to files built with -output-obj.
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6702: explicit "linkpkg" and "dontlink(foo)" flags
>>   (Peter Zotov, Gabriel Scherer)
>> - PR#6712: Ignore common VCS directories
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6720: pass -g to C compilers when tag 'debug' is set
>>   (Peter Zotov, Gabriel Scherer)
>> - PR#6733: add .byte.so and .native.so targets to pass
>>   -output-obj -cclib -shared.
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6733: "runtime_variant(X)" to pass -runtime-variant X option.
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6774: new menhir-specific flags "only_tokens" and "external_tokens(Foo)"
>>   (François Pottier)
>>
>> Libraries:
>> - PR#6285: Add support for nanosecond precision in Unix.stat()
>>   (Jérémie Dimino, report by user 'gfxmonk')
>> - PR#6781: Add higher baud rates to Unix termios
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by Berke Durak)
>> - PR#6834: Add Obj.{first,last}_non_constant_constructor_tag
>>   (Mark Shinwell, request by Gabriel Scherer)
>>
>> Runtime:
>> - PR#6078: Release the runtime system when calling caml_dlopen
>>   (Jérémie Dimino)
>> - PR#6675: GC hooks
>>   (Damien Doligez and Roshan James)
>>
>> Build system:
>> - PR#5418 (comments) : generate dependencies with $(CC) instead of gcc
>>   (Damien Doligez and Michael Grünewald)
>> - PR#6266: Cross compilation for iOs, Android etc
>>   (Peter Zotov, review by Damien Doligez and Mark Shinwell)
>>
>> Installation procedure:
>> - Update instructions for x86-64 PIC mode and POWER architecture builds
>>   (Mark Shinwell)
>>
>> Bug fixes:
>> - PR#5271: Location.prerr_warning is hard-coded to use Format.err_formatter
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by Rolf Rolles)
>> - PR#5395: OCamlbuild mishandles relative symlinks and include paths
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by Didier Le Botlan)
>> - PR#5822: wrong value of Options.ext_dll on windows
>>   (Damien Doligez and Daniel Weil)
>> - PR#5836, PR#6684: printing lazy values in ocamldebug may segfault
>>   (Gabriel Scherer, request by the Coq team)
>> - PR#5887: move the byterun/*.h headers to byterun/caml/*.h to avoid
>>   header name clashes
>>   (Jérôme Vouillon and Adrien Nader and Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6281: Graphics window does not acknowledge second click (double click)
>>   (Kyle Headley)
>> - PR#6490: incorrect backtraces in gdb on AArch64.  Also fixes incorrect
>>   backtraces on 32-bit ARM.
>>   (Mark Shinwell)
>> - PR#6573: extern "C" for systhreads/threads.h
>>   (Mickaël Delahaye)
>> - PR#6575: Array.init evaluates callback although it should not do so
>>   (Alain Frisch, report by Gerd Stolpmann)
>> - PR#6607: The manual doesn't mention 0x200 flag for OCAMLRUNPARAM=v
>>   (Alain Frisch)
>> - PR#6616: allow meaningful use of -use-runtime without -custom.
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6617: allow android build with pthreads support (since SDK r10c)
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6626: ocamlbuild on cygwin cannot find ocamlfind
>>   (Gergely Szilvasy)
>> - PR#6628: Configure script rejects legitimate arguments
>>   (Michael Grünewald, Damien Doligez)
>> - PR#6630: Failure of tests/prim-bigstring/{big,}string.ml on big-endian
>>   architectures
>>   (Pierre Chambart, testing by Mark Shinwell)
>> - PR#6640: ocamlbuild: wrong "unused tag" warning on "precious"
>>   (report by user 'william')
>> - PR#6652: ocamlbuild -clean does not print a newline after output
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by Andi McClure)
>> - PR#6658: cross-compiler: version check not working on OS X
>>   (Gerd Stolpmann)
>> - PR#6665: Failure of tests/asmcomp on sparc
>>   (Stéphane Glondu)
>> - PR#6667: wrong implementation of %bswap16 on ARM64
>>   (Xavier Leroy)
>> - PR#6669: fix 4.02 regression in toplevel printing of lazy values
>>   (Leo White, review by Gabriel Scherer)
>> - PR#6671: Windows: environment variable 'TZ' affects Unix.gettimeofday
>>   (Mickael Delahaye and Damien Doligez)
>> - PR#6680: Missing parentheses in warning about polymorphic variant value
>>   (Jacques Garrigue and Gabriel Scherer, report by Philippe Veber)
>> - PR#6686: Bug in [subst_boxed_number]
>>   (Jérémie Dimino, Mark Shinwell)
>> - PR#6690: Uncaught exception (Not_found) with (wrong) wildcard or unification
>>   type variable in place of a local abstract type
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Mikhail Mandrykin)
>> - PR#6693 (part two): Incorrect relocation types in x86-64 runtime system
>>   (Peter Zotov, review by Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Xavier Leroy and Mark Shinwell)
>> - PR#6717: Pprintast does not print let-pattern attributes
>>   (Gabriel Scherer, report by Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6727: Printf.sprintf "%F" misbehavior
>>   (Benoît Vaugon, report by Vassili Karpov)
>> - PR#6747: ocamlobjinfo: missing symbol caml_plugin_header due to underscore
>>   (Damien Doligez, Maverick Woo)
>> - PR#6749: ocamlopt returns n for (n mod 1) instead of 0
>>   (Mark Shinwell and Jérémie Dimino)
>> - PR#6753: Num.quo_num and Num.mod_num incorrect for some negative arguments
>>   (Xavier Leroy)
>> - PR#6758: Ocamldoc "analyse_module: parsetree and typedtree don't match"
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by user 'maro')
>> - PR#6759: big_int_of_string incorrectly parses some hexa literals
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by Pierre-yves Strub)
>> - PR#6763: #show with -short-paths doesn't select shortest type paths
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by David Sheets)
>> - PR#6768: Typechecker overflow the stack on cyclic type
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by user 'darktenaibre')
>> - PR#6772: asmrun/signals_asm.c doesn't compile on NetBSD/i386
>>   (Kenji Tokudome)
>> - PR#6775: Digest.file leaks file descriptor on error
>>   (Valentin Gatien-Baron)
>> - PR#6779: Cross-compilers cannot link bytecode using custom primitives
>>   (Damien Doligez, request by Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6787: Soundness bug with polymorphic variants
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, with help from Leo White and Grégoire Henry,
>>    report by Michael O'Connor)
>> - PR#6790: otherlibs should be built with -g
>>   (Damien Doligez, report by Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6791: "%s@[", "%s@{" regression in Scanf
>>   (Benoît Vaugon)
>> - PR#6793: ocamlbuild passes nonsensical "-ocamlc ..." commands to menhir
>>   (Gabriel Scherer, report by Damien Doligez)
>> - PR#6799: include guards missing for unixsupport.h and other files
>>   (Andreas Hauptmann)
>> - PR#6810: Improve documentation of Bigarray.Genarray.map_file
>>   (Mark Shinwell and Daniel Bünzli)
>> - PR#6812: -short-paths and -no-alias-deps can create inconsistent assumptions
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Valentin Gatien-Baron)
>> - PR#6817: GADT exhaustiveness breakage with modules
>>   (Leo White, report by Pierre Chambart)
>> - PR#6824: fix buffer sharing on partial application of Format.asprintf
>>   (Gabriel Scherer, report by Alain Frisch)
>> - PR#6831: Build breaks for -aspp gcc on solaris-like OSs
>>   (John Tibble)
>> - PR#6836: Assertion failure using -short-paths
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by David Sheets)
>> - PR#6837: Build profiling libraries on FreeBSD and NetBSD x86-64
>>   (Mark Shinwell, report by Michael Grünewald)
>> - PR#6841: Changing compilation unit name with -o breaks ocamldebug
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Jordan Walke)
>> - PR#6843: record weak dependencies even when the .cmi is missing
>>   (Leo White, Gabriel Scherer)
>> - PR#6849: Inverted pattern unification error
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Leo White)
>> - PR#6857: __MODULE__ doesn't give the current module with -o
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Valentin Gatien-Baron)
>> - PR#6862: Exhaustiveness check wrong for class constructor arguments
>>   (Jacques Garrigue)
>> - PR#6869: Improve comment on [Hashtbl.hash_param]
>>   (Mark Shinwell, report by Jun Furuse)
>> - PR#6870: Unsoundness when -rectypes fails to detect non-contractive type
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Stephen Dolan)
>> - PR#6872: Type-directed propagation fails to disambiguate variants
>>   that are also exception constructors
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Romain Beauxis)
>> - PR#6878: AArch64 backend generates invalid asm: conditional branch
>>   out of range (Mark Shinwell, report by Richard Jones, testing by Richard
>>   Jones and Xavier Leroy, code review by Xavier Leroy and Thomas Refis)
>> - PR#6879: Wrong optimization of 1 mod n
>>   (Mark Shinwell, report by Jean-Christophe Filliâtre)
>> - PR#6884: The __CYGWIN32__ #define should be replaced with __CYGWIN__
>>   (Adrien Nader)
>> - PR#6886: -no-alias-deps allows to build self-referential compilation units
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, report by Valentin Gatien-Baron)
>> - PR#6889: ast_mapper fails to rewrite class attributes
>>   (Sébastien Briais)
>> - PR#6893: ocamlbuild:  "tag not used" warning when using (p)dep
>>   (Gabriel Scherer, report by Christiano Haesbaert)
>> - GPR#143: fix getsockopt behaviour for boolean socket options
>>   (Anil Madhavapeddy and Andrew Ray)
>> - GPR#190: typo in pervasives
>>   (Guillaume Bury)
>> - Misplaced assertion in major_gc.c for no-naked-pointers mode
>>   (Stephen Dolan, Mark Shinwell)
>>
>> Feature wishes:
>> - PR#6452, GPR#140: add internal suport for custom printing formats
>>   (Jérémie Dimino)
>> - PR#6641: add -g, -ocamlcflags, -ocamloptflags options to ocamlmklib
>>   (Peter Zotov)
>> - PR#6693: also build libasmrun_shared.so and lib{asm,caml}run_pic.a
>>   (Peter Zotov, review by Mark Shinwell)
>> - PR#6842: export Typemod.modtype_of_package
>>   (Jacques Garrigue, request by Jun Furuse)
>> - GPR#139: more versatile specification of locations of .annot
>>   (Christophe Troestler, review by Damien Doligez)
>> - GPR#157: store the path of cmos inside debug section at link time
>>   (Hugo Heuzard, review by Damien Doligez)
>> - GPR#191: Making gc.h and some part of memory.h public
>>   (Thomas Refis)
>>
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