From a21ea76fbf8cc82653f038ded323fe88d1d785e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 23:12:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?gnu:=C2=A0Add=20ocaml-stdlib-shims.?=
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* gnu/packages/ocaml.scm (ocaml-stdlib-shims): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/ocaml.scm | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
index 3f661b74e1..d66910cb4a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
@@ -2383,6 +2383,28 @@ language.")
 can match the question using a regular expression or a timeout.")
     (license license:lgpl2.1+))) ; with the OCaml static compilation exception
 
+(define-public ocaml-stdlib-shims
+  (package
+    (name "ocaml-stdlib-shims")
+    (version "0.1.0")
+    (source (origin
+              (method git-fetch)
+              (uri (git-reference
+                     (url "https://github.com/ocaml/stdlib-shims")
+                     (commit version)))
+              (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "007dwywsr5285z0np6a9nr0h8iqmyzfrlx6s5xaqcwj69zabsrjm"))))
+    (build-system dune-build-system)
+    (home-page "https://github.com/ocaml/stdlib-shims")
+    (synopsis "OCaml stdlib features backport to older OCaml compilers")
+    (description "This package backports some of the new stdlib features to
+older compilers, such as the Stdlib module.  This allows projects that require
+compatibility with older compiler to use these new features in their code.")
+    ;; with ocaml-linking exception
+    (license license:lgpl2.1+)))
+
 (define-public ocaml-fileutils
   (package
     (name "ocaml-fileutils")