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 LAA29191; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:46:04 +0100 (MET) 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 LAA29182 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:46:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1HAk1P08777 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:46:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rta6.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.26) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.7.015) id 3E0C3370020A94A2; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:46:00 +0100 Received: from iliana (81.50.14.236) by mel-rta6.wanadoo.fr (6.7.015) id 3E26CE210121B700; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:46:00 +0100 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18kimd-0000eT-00; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:45:59 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:45:59 +0100 To: Hendrik Tews Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlrun- [was : Any idea about Ocaml 3.07 release date?] Message-ID: <20030217104558.GA2392@iliana> References: <3E459DA8.8010509@baretta.com> <20030213155637.A21163@pauillac.inria.fr> <20030213161342.GA15344@iliana> <15948.48700.448350.306636@ithif51.inf.tu-dresden.de> <20030214101701.GA3555@iliana> <15952.47406.607869.593051@ithif51.inf.tu-dresden.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15952.47406.607869.593051@ithif51.inf.tu-dresden.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Sven Luther Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:27:58AM +0100, Hendrik Tews wrote: > Sven Luther writes: > > > I use Debian, but I never install the ocaml packages (sorry to > > admit that). Instead I install every ocaml version in its own > > BTW, why don't you use the packages ? > > Because they are years behind. Until last week I had > Debian/Potato. It comes with Ocaml 2.04 from November 1999! Now I > upgraded to unstable (which is enough bleeding edge for me) and > there I find 3.04 from December 2001. That can't be, you upgraded to either woody or testing. unstable has 3.06, and the only reason it hasn't entered testing yet, is because it was built with glibc 2.3.1, which is not (yet) ready for testing. Stefano announced woody backport of the debian/unstable packages on this list on September 22. These should work for either testing or woody. here is the apt source he posted : deb http://people.debian.org/~zack/ocaml unstable main contrib non-free Just add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list before the standard sources, and you should get all the ocaml 3.06 stuff. I don't really know if a similar potato backport would be possible, it would be a pain to maintain, and potato is really old as you may have noticed, but i think maybe Georges Mariano did something such. If in doubt, you can always try building the debian packages yourself, apt-get source -b should allow you to do that. Finally, you can try installing unstable stuff on a woody/testing box with : apt-get install -t unstable ocaml but i guess this will pull in the new libc and tons of other stuff. In conclusion, if you really run woody or testing, use Stefano's backports, if you run potato, upgrade to woody, if you run unstable, something is really wrong, since you should have the latest packages. > That said, you are aware that a bytecode executable built on your system > will not run on another system with ocamlrun placed in different place. > > Yes. But this applies to the ocaml packages in the same way. I > don't know any system administrator how would install ocaml under > /usr/bin. Yes, this is a bit of a problem, i think. Not sure, but it is always possible to run ocamlrun on it yourself. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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