Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3, armhf, ocamlopt, wheezy

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 27.06.16 at 13:29, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since around January we have been testing our Xen 4.3 stable branches
> (which still receive security support until very soon) with a version
> of Debian which was current when 4.3 was also current - ie, wheezy.
> 
> Debian wheezy has an `ocaml-nox' package, but it does not contain
> `ocamlopt' on armhf.  There is code in `configure' in
> xen.git#staging-4.3 to attempt to discover whether ocamlopt exists.
> That code appears to work, correctly detecting that ocamlopt does not
> exist - but then the build tries to use it anyway:
> 
> http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/96291/build-armhf/5.ts-xen-buil
>  
> d.log
> 
> I would like to get one final push of Xen 4.3 before it goes out of
> security support.  I don't think this configuration bug in Xen 4.3 is
> recently introduced.  I think that previous tests we were probably
> using squeeze, which probably did not have ocaml at all, and that we
> were using an osstest which didn't try to use it.
> 
> I propose to drop the ocaml package installation from osstest runs
> using Debian squeeze or Debian wheezy.

Fine with me, fwiw.

Jan


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