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Is there any good reason to install both byte and native versions of the ocaml toolchain binaries ? #7014

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vicuna opened this issue Oct 12, 2015 · 3 comments
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vicuna commented Oct 12, 2015

Original bug ID: 7014
Reporter: @dbuenzli
Assigned to: @mshinwell
Status: resolved (set by @mshinwell on 2016-12-09T07:52:05Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Version: 4.02.3
Category: tools (ocaml{lex,yacc,dep,debug,...})
Monitored by: @diml @hcarty

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If there is none, would it maybe be possible to revise the install procedure so that if the native code compilers are being built they are installed under the ocamlc, ocamlopt, etc. names rather than have the byte code ones there. (The .opt ones would still be installed for compatibility).

While the distinction is often hidden by ocamlfind it needlessly complicate build configuration in settings where ocamlfind is not being used.

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vicuna commented Oct 14, 2015

Comment author: @xavierleroy

One rather weak reason: when we get a bug report, it makes it easy to see whether the bytecoded compilers or the natively-compiled compilers were used. In a few cases (but increasingly rare), it makes a difference in how we should track the problem down.

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vicuna commented Mar 16, 2016

Comment author: @dbuenzli

xref GPR #512

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vicuna commented Dec 9, 2016

Comment author: @mshinwell

This has been discussed on Github (and some changes made)

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