Libguestfs - Nov 2022 - [hivex PATCH] Add OCaml 5.0 support

Hi,

Here is a patch to add support to the upcoming OCaml 5.0 to hivex:
https://github.com/kit-ty-kate/hivex/commit/e89b4ab014fa764bf392275ba0dfa7631ea7689b

This new release of the compiler will be released early next month.

Note: this patch breaks support for OCaml < 4.07. If you want to keep support
I suppose you can add some hacks in the configure.ac file to add "module
Stdlib = Pervasives" at the start of the "generator/generator.ml"
file but I'm not sure how worth to you it is to support old +5 years old
compilers.

Kind regards,
Kate
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 07:00:57PM +0000, Kate Deplaix
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patch to add support to the upcoming OCaml 5.0 to hivex: https://
>
github.com/kit-ty-kate/hivex/commit/e89b4ab014fa764bf392275ba0dfa7631ea7689b
> 
> This new release of the compiler will be released early next month.
Thanks - I have pushed this ...
> Note: this patch breaks support for OCaml < 4.07. If you want to
> keep support I suppose you can add some hacks in the configure.ac
> file to add "module Stdlib = Pervasives" at the start of the
> "generator/generator.ml" file but I'm not sure how worth to
you it
> is to support old +5 years old compilers.
Yes this does in fact break RHEL 7 (ocaml 4.05).  However hivex was
already broken on RHEL 7 because of a mismatch with the GNU gettext
version.  Also hivex is a package that we rarely need to touch and
RHEL 7 is going out of support.  So I think we're fine here.

Rich.

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