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I've tried to update merge the changes from dune-universe-1.9.5 with the upstream 1.9.6 release. The good thing is that upstream now features some of the changes we had made, so I could drop some patches.

I am however unclear on the META files that we install, if I understand the changes in 1.9.6 correctly we should not be doing this on OCaml releases 5.0+ anymore. Am I right in this assumption?

avsm and others added 18 commits July 30, 2019 15:57
Signed-off-by: Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]>
This will let the `findlib.dynload` package work correctly
with dune, which has special handling for it.

@diml says:
> dune generates a small module that is linked just after it and
registers the libraries that are statically linked in so that at
> runtime findlib.dynload doesn't dynamically load them again
this lets `findlib` work in a duniverse, which it doesnt when
only added as a META template
`findlib_config.ml` is entirely generated by the `discover` tool which
doesn't use that template anymore.
Remove default config so findlib can be used in a duniverse
Findlib is supposed to load lazily but linking with Topfind made it load
immediately.
Which made findlib looks for its config file and eventually crash before the
user had a change to call Findlib.init_manually
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emillon commented Feb 6, 2023

It's still necessary to install the META files for the compiler if ocaml < 5. Probably there's already some logic in findlib that does this. You can replicate that in the dune config (note that for this to work on ocaml >= 5, it also requires dune >= 3.4)

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