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@@ -29,17 +29,18 @@ WHAT DO YOU NEED ?
To compile Coq V8.6 yourself, you need:
- - Objective Caml version 4.01.0 or later
+ - OCaml version 4.02.1 or later
(available at http://caml.inria.fr/)
+ OCaml version 4.02.0 is not supported because of a severe performance
+ issue increasing compilation time.
+
- Findlib (included in OCaml binary distribution under windows,
probably available in your distribution and for sure at
http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html)
- Camlp5 (version >= 6.02) (Coq compiles with Camlp4 but might be
- less well supported, for instance, Objective Caml version 4.02.1
- is then needed or a patched version of 4.01.0 as e.g. version
- 4.01.0-4 in Debian Jessie)
+ less well supported)
- GNU Make version 3.81 or later
@@ -65,8 +66,8 @@ INSTALLATION PROCEDURE IN DETAILS (NORMAL USERS).
computer and that "ocamlc" (or, better, its native code version
"ocamlc.opt") lies in a directory which is present in your $PATH
environment variable. At the time of writing this sentence, all
- versions of Objective Caml later or equal to 4.01.0 are
- supported to the exception of Objective Caml 4.02.0.
+ versions of Objective Caml later or equal to 4.02.1 are
+ supported.
To get Coq in native-code, (it runs 4 to 10 times faster than
bytecode, but it takes more time to get compiled and the binary is