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Date: | 2002-05-15 (18:35) |
From: | Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@o...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] OCaml packaging problems |
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Sven Luther wrote: > > Concerning this ld.conf issue, I disagree both with Sven Luther's solution > > (a tool that adds/removes lines from this file) and with Vitaly > > Lugovsky's suggestion (multiple configuration files in a directory). > > Would you care to argument a bit more about this, apart from the 'it is > not the unix way' argument you give below that is. > > and BTW, ocaml-ldconf does not really add/remove lines from the > /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file, it uses two separate files > (/etc/ocaml/ld.conf and /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf) which are modified and > used to generate the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf. > > It is a nice concept (even if it is me saying it) that clearly separate > the system administrator stuff (/etc/ocaml/ld.conf) from the > dpkg/rpm/whatever handled stuff (/var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf), with the > former taking precedence over the later. In no way does it modify the > way ocaml handles this, and is thus a purely external tool doing its > jjob correctly. This concept looks like ls-R file in the teTeX distribution. And all packagers knows that this file is quite a problem. So, as for me, I choosed the way suggested by Xavier Leroy - every .so file have simlink in %_libdir/ocaml/site-lib/, while the other library stuff located in the separate directory. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners