Comment 1 for bug 2053233

Dear Giacomo,
thanks a lot for the report. A quick remark (we will follow up on this in the next collaboration meeting): it seems you are doing an in-source build which should work but is not actively maintained by us and highly discouraged. Indeed, the problem with inconsistent time stamps of sources with this bigarray_compat workaround we noticed ourselves in different incarnations, notably in our CI. Note that this bigarray_compat workaround was necessary to support OCaml compiler versions as old as 4.05 and as new as 4.08+ simultaneously. With v3.1.3 of Whizard (which was released in October 2023 followed by 3.1.4 in November 2023) we now demand as minimal version for OCaml 4.08. Hence, this bigarray_compat workaround is no longer necessary and was removed from the distribution. I do believe that also your fix is no longer necessary in that case (except for retrospectively ease parallel building and installation of v3.1.2 and older). As I said, we will discuss internally and come back to the bug report.
Cheers,
    JRR (Juergen)