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

[Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>]

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.

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