From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA00547; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:04:02 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00754 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:04:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from moutng0.schlund.de (moutng0.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.170]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g5IK40j04488; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:04:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng0.kundenserver.de) by moutng0.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 17KPCp-0001rA-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:03:59 +0200 Received: from [80.129.99.170] (helo=gate.gerd-stolpmann.de) by mrelayng0.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17KPCp-00029F-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:03:59 +0200 Received: from ice.gerd-stolpmann.de (ice.gerd-stolpmann.de [192.168.0.13]) by gate.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5F2CCDD; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:31:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ice (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28D11AD7B; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:04:02 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:04:02 +0200 From: Gerd Stolpmann To: Sven Luther Cc: Xavier Leroy , Sven , Vitaly Lugovsky , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml packaging problems Message-ID: <20020618220402.A629@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> References: <20020430111657.A18782@pauillac.inria.fr> <20020430200405.A16880@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> <20020514105452.B11894@pauillac.inria.fr> <20020613155001.GA27493@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> <20020618145733.A21463@pauillac.inria.fr> <20020618133253.GA30437@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020618133253.GA30437@lambda.u-strasbg.fr>; from luther@lambda.u-strasbg.fr on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 15:32:53 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.4 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On 2002.06.18 15:32 Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > > 1) What will be the exact name of these directories ? It would be a good > > > idea, i think at least, if we choose the same name for all > > > installations of ocaml, and not everyone choosing it's own directory. > > > (or else we could have a ocaml option similar to -where which would > > > give a pointer to these directories ? and have the choice of the > > > directory highly configurable, maybe a -where_stub or something such ?) > > > > > > Actually i have the proposition of "shlibs" from you, and "libexec" from > > > Gerd and the findlib people. and then i feel myself "stublibs" should be > > > a nice name too, especially since it is just the sub libraries we are > > > speaking about, and not the .cma and other such ocaml libraries. > > > > My proposal for "shlibs" was just for the sake of example, and isn't > > very descriptive. I like "stublibs" or "libexec" better, actually. > > I would go for stublibs myself, but the findlib folk seems keen on > libexec. Maybe we should have a long discution here on that, or you > would decide and we keep that, i don't know, i would need more opinion > on this. There is no traditional name for the directory containing dynamically loaded libraries, i.e. libraries that are not linked with "-l" into the executable. "libexec" is intended for executables that are run as a result of library calls, and that are not in PATH. I chose "libexec" because that was most close to DLLs. I don't know if this is a good name, however, and I can change it again in the findlib distribution. I think the point is whether everybody familiar with filesystem conventions finds the DLL directory immediately. Gerd -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerd Stolpmann Telefon: +49 6151 997705 (privat) Viktoriastr. 45 64293 Darmstadt EMail: gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- 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