[CentOS-devel] ATTN: OCaml 4.03 in Rawhide, could affect POWER, s/390, RHEL 7.4, CentOS 7.4

Tue Oct 18 14:49:30 UTC 2016
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>


On 10/18/2016 08:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> (3) The real reason I'm doing this now is because partners have asked
> us to update the OCaml compiler in RHEL 7.4.  This will be a binary
> ABI break -- it's unfortunately unavoidable -- and will require all
> OCaml-using programs to be recompiled, and of course that will affect
> CentOS and any other RHEL derivatives.


Thanks for the heads-up on this one. Happen to have a rough estimate
handy for the number of impacted packages?


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