Gabriel Scherer

One option we might consider is to produce and install both pf-enabled and fp-disabled versions of the libraries by default, so that we in effect have both in a single...

I am not sure, but I believe that this feature request is actually the same as the one in #12251, which was closed as "not planned".

The zstd README documents various build-time options ([README: modular build](https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/lib/README.md#modular-build)), many meant to reduce the size of the library artifact, in particular: - ZSTD_LIB_MINIFY which asks to systematically reduce code...

Note that any distribution of OCaml can choose to disable Marshal's compression support at configure-time. There is no dependency on zstd then, and programs that try to use compression during...

@jonahbeckford I was not trying to recommend, but to point out to concerned distribution-makers that this option exists. (In the sense of "OCaml distribution", not "Linux distribution") There are many...

@Octachron has proposed to create an `ocaml-option-no-compression` package to make it easy for users to disable zstd support in their OCaml install. I think that would solve your problem (and...

I am not sure that we know what we want for a longer-term fix, and whether people will keep looking now that the bug has been fixed. I wonder what...

I wonder if you could get any closer to the source of the issue (by bisection maybe?) and how this affects the release calendar: is it something that we could...

I am a bit nervous about the fact that no one investigated this issue yet. Any volunteers? ( This might be in the skillset of @fabbing, @OlivierNicole, @dustanddreams and/or @NickBarnes...

I would bet on https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/11903 .