[Ocaml-devel] Excluding various ocamlx() dependencies in Fedora OCaml packages

Some ocamlx dependencies, notably ocamlx(Dynlink) are not very stable between rebuilds of OCaml even of the same version. I'm unclear why this is exactly, but I am currently rebuilding many ocaml packages broken by the Fedora mass rebuild for this exact reason. I think therefore we should modify the /usr/lib/rpm/ocamldeps.sh to ignore these troublesome dependencies. A simple thing to do for now would be (untested): $ diff -ur ocamldeps.sh ocamldeps.sh.new --- ocamldeps.sh 2021-07-27 21:54:47.673109249 +0100 +++ ocamldeps.sh.new 2021-07-27 22:00:34.917707988 +0100 @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ } # mode= -ignore_implementation_a=() +ignore_implementation_a=(Dynlink) ignore_interface_a=() while test "$#" -gt 0 do which should have the effect of ignoring ocamlx(Dynlink) across all modules. Obviously this would need a rebuild of all packages, so something to consider when OCaml 4.13 comes out. Thoughts on this? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v