Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] RISC-V native backend, no longer cross-compiling

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

On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 08:43:15AM +0100, Nicolas Ojeda Bar wrote:
> Today I am happy to announce a preliminary, native release of the full
> OCaml system on RISC-V. It is available at
> 
>     https://www.github.com/nojb/riscv-ocaml.
> 
> It targets the 64-bit variant of the RISC-V architecture, RV64G (the
> 32-bit variant should also work, but has not been tested).  All
> libraries are supported (Dynlink and Num have a couple of issues left,
> but I expect them to be resolved shortly).
> 
> I plan to maintain and keep developing this port for the foreseeable
> future, tracking official OCaml releases.  It is currently based on
> the recently released 4.04.0.

I have added your backend to the Fedora Rawhide OCaml 4.04.0 package.

It's not yet built in the publicly available Fedora/RISC-V packages,
since those are based on Fedora 25 [currently Rawhide is the future
Fedora 26].  However you can still look at the sources here:

  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ocaml.git/log/
  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ocaml-srpm-macros.git/log/

A couple of things which would help us (a little, although they are
not a big deal):

- Squash your patches down to a single commit ...

- ... but separate out the config.guess/config.sub change in
  a separate commit, since we would usually copy those in
  from our own copies.

Thanks for your great work on OCaml & RISC-V,

Rich.