Le 02/08/2019 à 14:30, Stéphane Glondu a écrit : >>> - a patch to change the behaviour of -custom, which has been rejected >>> upstream because they don't want people to use -custom (the error being >>> stripping such binaries would remove also the bytecode) >> >> Are we having packages that are built using -custom ? Otherwise it >> is probably not that important. > > I don't know. Are we OK to declare this as buggy from now on?
There has been an interesting development on this topic. It turns out dune uses -custom to generate executables on bytecode architectures. I complained about that in [1] and miraculously the feature is not deprecated any more. There is even an effort to integrate my patch upstream now [2]. [1] https://github.com/ocaml/dune/issues/2505 [2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8872 Cheers, -- Stéphane