MacOS self-extracting binary

MacOS self-extracting binary

[Mary Fernandez]

Greetings,

I just installed the MacOS self-extracting binary.
Two problems: 

1. there is no doc that specifies
where it automatically installs itself and
2. there is no way to specify an alternative 
installation directory. 

Where does it install by default?
Thanks! Mary
-- 
Mary Fernandez <mff@research.att.com>
AT&T Labs - Research

Re: [Caml-list] MacOS self-extracting binary

[William D. Neumann]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mary Fernandez wrote:

> 1. there is no doc that specifies
> where it automatically installs itself and
> 2. there is no way to specify an alternative
> installation directory.
>
> Where does it install by default?
> Thanks! Mary

It installs by defoult in /usr/local/{bin | lib/ocaml | man/man(1|3)}

If you pick up the program Pacifist[1], you can easily examine the 
contents of pkg files, ond you can also extract the contents to a 
non-standard location.

[1] http://www.charlessoft.com/

William D. Neumann

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Re: [Caml-list] MacOS self-extracting binary

[Damien Doligez]

On May 3, 2005, at 17:45, William D. Neumann wrote:

> It installs by defoult in /usr/local/{bin | lib/ocaml | man/man(1|3)}

Correct.

> If you pick up the program Pacifist[1], you can easily examine the 
> contents of pkg files, ond you can also extract the contents to a 
> non-standard location.

In the case of OCaml, it will not work well if you install it in a
non-standard location because the commands need to know where to find
each other and the standard library files.

If you need it somewhere else, you will have to configure and recompile 
from
source.

-- Damien