FS#78579 - [ocaml-ctypes] explicit bytes dependency causes depending packages to not build

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Daniel Peukert (dpeukert) - Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 21:30 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Not exactly sure what changed in ocaml 5.0 with regards to this, but when building a package that depends on `ocaml-ctypes`, the compiler now complains:

```
Running[1]: (cd src/c && /sbin/ocaml -I +compiler-libs /tmp/trizen-skaro/ocaml-luv/src/luv-0.5.12/_build/.dune/default/src/c/dune.ml)
Actual targets:
- recursive alias @install
File "/usr/lib/ocaml/ctypes/META", line 1, characters 0-0:
Error: Library "bytes" not found.
-> required by library "ctypes" in /usr/lib/ocaml/ctypes
-> required by _build/default/META.luv_unix
-> required by _build/install/default/lib/luv_unix/META
-> required by _build/default/luv_unix.install
-> required by alias install
```

As `bytes` is a part of the compiler since 4.02, not requiring it explicitly should be fine and sure enough, when I apply this patch, everything seems to work:
```
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
version = "0.20.2"
description = "Combinators for binding to C libraries without writing any C."
-requires = "bigarray-compat bytes integers"
+requires = "bigarray-compat integers"
archive(byte) = "ctypes.cma"
archive(byte, plugin) = "ctypes.cma"
archive(byte, toploop) = "ctypes.cma ctypes-top.cma"
```

I've also applied the same fix (https://github.com/OCamlPro/ocplib-endian/pull/26) to the `ocaml-ocplib-endian` AUR package, which had the same issue, no problems there as well.
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Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/ocaml-ctypes/issues/1

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