On 9 February 2016 at 10:09, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 Feb 2016, at 22:07, Daniel Bünzli <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Having seen a worrying trend of people submitting package with ad-hoc >> installers made out of Makefile targets that will fail in various fashions >> on more constrained switches, I think it would be good to have at least one >> distribution with a bytecode only switch. This would ensure that packages >> are able to build in such constrained environment. >> >> Bytecode only switches are useful for ocaml language/runtime/compiler >> researchers and to use OCaml on more esoteric platforms that lack >> native-code support. > > Agreed -- I run into this frequently when porting to OpenBSD PowerPC, and > it's much easier to fix it as we go along. > > Would anyone have time to put together an OPAM bytecode-compiler-only switch > for 4.02.3? I can create the base packages easily then.
Here's a switch which supports ocamlc, but not ocamlopt or ocamlc.opt: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/5571 _______________________________________________ opam-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
