Re: [PATCH v2] tools: require OCaml version 3.09.3 or greater

[Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>]

On 04/30/14 11:10, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 16:04 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: require OCaml version 3.09.3 or greater"):
>>> I have this on my list of things for backport, but it's comes under your
>>> umbrella. What do you think?
>> I looked through the past email thread and I can't see /why/ this
>> patch was applied.  The commit message doesn't explain either!
>>
>> Rather than me digging through list archives, perhaps someone could
>> enlighten me ?  If I ever knew I have forgotten ...
>  From memory something or other didn't compile with the ocaml in RHEL5,
> which was older.

I was the person that found an ocaml change that did not compile in RHEL5 (OCaml version 3.09.3)

This was done to help catch build errors.  The fix for RHEL5 was:

[BUGFIX][PATCH 1/1] xenlight_stubs.c: Allow it to build with ocaml 3.09.3

...

+/*
+ * Starting with ocaml-3.09.3, CAMLreturn can only be used for ``value''
+ * types. CAMLreturnT was only added in 3.09.4, so we define our own
+ * version here if needed.
+ */


Hope this helps.
    -Don Slutz

> Ian.
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