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4.00 changelog missing Camlp4 'loc' change #5669

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vicuna opened this issue Jul 4, 2012 · 2 comments
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4.00 changelog missing Camlp4 'loc' change #5669

vicuna opened this issue Jul 4, 2012 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented Jul 4, 2012

Original bug ID: 5669
Reporter: dario
Assigned to: @gasche
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2015-12-11T18:07:05Z)
Resolution: not a bug
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 4.00.0+beta2/+rc1
Category: documentation

Bug description

4.00 seems to have introduced a backwards incompatible change to Camlp4 which is not reported as such in the changelog: 'loc' is no longer accepted, only '_loc'.

Note that the "bug" is the supposed absence from the changelog, not the change itself. This issue was first reported by Richard Jones on the PG'OCaml mailing list: https://lists.forge.ocamlcore.org/pipermail/pgocaml-general/2012-July/000013.html

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vicuna commented Jul 4, 2012

Comment author: dario

Please disregard this report. I've just tracked down the problem to a different source: PG'OCaml's build system got confused with OCaml's bump in major version number, and neglected to pass the '-loc' parameter to Camlp4...

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vicuna commented Jul 4, 2012

Comment author: @gasche

Ha! I thought the same thing and was just coming to the bugtracker to tell you about your dubious $(OCAMLVERSION) -ge 9. Too late...

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