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OCaml < 4.14, Fedora 42 and GCC 15

Late last week, @MisterDA added Fedora 42 support to the Docker base image builder. The new base images attempted to build over the weekend, but there have been a few issues!

22 Apr 2025

Marc Elvers

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OCaml 4.04, RISC-V, S/390, POWER and more …

I pushed OCaml 4.04.0 to Fedora Rawhide last week. There are loads of new features for OCaml users, but the ones that particularly affect Fedora are: New, upstream POWER (ppc64, ppc64le) backend, r…

19 Nov 2016

Richard Jones

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libguestfs now works on 64 bit ARM

Pictured above is my 64 bit ARM server. It’s under NDA so I cannot tell you who supplied it or even show you a proper photo. However it runs Fedora 21 & Rawhide: Linux arm64.home.annexia.…

23 Jul 2014

Richard Jones

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Fedora 21 has a working OCaml ARM64

Update: Thanks to Peter Robinson, there is now a build of OCaml for aarch64 in the Fedora repository. I have backported the upstream ARM64 support into Fedora 21’s OCaml, so you can now use i…

31 Dec 2013

Richard Jones

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Goaljobs, part 3

In part 2 I introduced an example goaljobs script that can rebuild a set of packages in Fedora in the right order. It’s time to take a closer look at targets — the promise that you make…

20 Sep 2013

Richard Jones

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