On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:46:42PM +0100, Malcolm Reynolds wrote:
> which evaluates to /usr/local/lib/ocaml - there is a zip subdirectory
> here, and it contains these files:
> 
> dllcamlzip.so gzip.cmx      libcamlzip.a  zip.cma       zip.cmx       zip.mli
> gzip.cmi      gzip.mli      zip.a         zip.cmi       zip.cmxa
> 
> Does this look reasonable? I'm definitely still missing something,

Yes, you are missing a META file, that "registers" camlzip with
findlib, which is in turn used by the batteries configuration
machinery to decide whether camlzip is installed or not.

> Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? I wonder whether
> it's due to some OS X idiosyncracy, like having library files end in
> ".dylib" rather that ".a"...

Looks like is more the fact that your camlzip "upstream" is not
shipping META, while both Debian and GODI are doing that. You can take
the META file from one of us/them and add it to your camlzip dir.

Cheers.

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