Indeed, this seems to be a side-effect of the partial merge of Adrien Nader's patches; he was working on cross-compilation in trunk between releases 4.01 and 4.02.
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5737 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/dda5f84f7c47de4cb1225de77ec723bacb06e905 On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Martin Lucina <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 19.05.2015 at 16:48, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > > Le mardi, 19 mai 2015 à 16:44, Martin Lucina a écrit : > > > What I don't understand is why > > > upstream OCaml 4.02.01 claims to support cross-compilation but > doesn't; was > > > this original effort abandoned by upstream? If so, why? > > > > Where do you see that ? This is news to me. Some work is being done > right now [1] but I don't think anybody ever claimed there was support for > cross-compilation in 4.02. > > In the 4.02.1 INSTALL file[1], which documents a "-target" option and says > it will produce a cross-compiler. The switch is even accepted by > configure, but the guts don't actually work. > > Perhaps some commit snuck in to 4.02.1 which shouldn't have? > > Martin > > [1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/4.02.1/INSTALL#L68 > _______________________________________________ > opam-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel >
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