Since OCaml 4.07 (released 2018-07-10) the always-loaded standard
library module has been called Stdlib. The old Pervasives module was
finally removed in OCaml 5.
$ perl -pi.bak -e 's/Pervasives\./Stdlib./g' -- `git ls-files`
OCaml >= 4.07 is now required.
Also update the common submodule with:
commit d61cd820b49e403848d15c5deaccbf8dd7045370
Author: Jürgen Hötzel
Date: Sat May 20 18:16:40 2023 +0200
Add support for OCaml 5.0
Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
The child (chrooted) process wrote its answer on the pipe and then
exited. Meanwhile the parent waiting for the child to exit before
reading from the pipe. Thus if the output was larger than a Linux
pipebuffer then the whole thing would deadlock.
This change allows parts of the daemon to be written in the OCaml
programming language. I am using the ‘Main Program in C’ method along
with ‘-output-obj’ to create an object file from the OCaml code /
runtime, as described here:
https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/intfc.html
Furthermore, change the generator to allow individual APIs to be
implemented in OCaml. This is picked by setting:
impl = OCaml <ocaml_function>;
The generator creates ‘do_function’ (the same one you would have to
write by hand in C), with the function calling the named
‘ocaml_function’ and dealing with marshalling/unmarshalling the OCaml
parameters.
