On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:03:20AM +1000, John Max Skaller wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:08:20AM +1000, John Max Skaller wrote:
> >
> >>Can I suggest that the directory:
> >>
> >>  /usr/local/lib/ocaml_3.05/
> >>
> >>might be a better default name? In switching versions around, having to 
> >>reinstall
> >>
> >
> >Is this not configurable ? 
> >
> Note I said *default* name: i.e. make the default libraries install in 
> different places.

Well, you build with :

./configure -prefix /usr/local/ocaml/3.05 ...

and everything will go into the right place.

Then you can build with :

./configure -prefix /usr/local/ocaml/3.06 ...

for the next version, and :

ocamlc -where 

will show the right place, which most packages use to know where to
install stuff.

Then you only need to have s symlink like :

ln -s /usr/local/ocaml/3.05 /usr/local/ocaml/current

or something, and have /usr/local/ocaml/current/bin in your PATH, and
all will work as you want (unless i badly misunderstood you).

This has worked since the early times of caml-light (well no the prefix
option, but you could hand specify the libdir, bindir, etc ...).

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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