ports/69695: update: net/unison to link under ocaml 3.08

[Dan Pelleg]

The following reply was made to PR ports/69695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+gnats at pelleg.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, janos.mohacsi at bsd.hu,
	ports at FreeBSD.org, eugos at gmx.net
Cc: Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net>
Subject: Re: ports/69695: update: net/unison to link under ocaml 3.08
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:30:13 -0400

 The proposed patch, however simple, breaks compilation under ocaml 3.07.
 
 The unison team is not likely to produce patches that work for both 3.07
 and 3.08 [1].
 
 At this point, the options as I see them are:
 
 1. Patch unison so it builds for both versions. See [2].
 
 2. Add logic to the port so it can patch conditionally, depending on the
 installed version of ocaml.
 
 3. Forget about support for 3.07. This will break systems that had
 installed ocaml previously, and now want to install unison.
 
 To me it seems option (2) is best, and is likely to benefit other ports as
 well. This has been done for mldonkey in ports/61012. But if there is a more
 general approach (unison has no configure script), it sure would be nice to
 just branch on version of the installed ocaml.
 
 
 
 [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users/message/2649
 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.lib.devel/1122