From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594A2BB91 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:41:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0RFf3FV017689 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:41:03 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28591 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:41:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from hedwig1.umh.ac.be (hedwig2.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.73]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0RFf3UC012667 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:41:03 +0100 Received: from poincare (mail@poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.35]) by hedwig1.umh.ac.be (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0RFiFkd782462; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:44:22 +0100 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuBlL-0003dm-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:40:51 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:40:50 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20050127.164050.17018072.debian00@tiscali.be> To: caml-list@inria.fr, debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Caml-list] binary compatibility of 3.08.3 From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: <20050113.150239.95895778.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> References: <99C2C114-6583-11D9-B72B-000D9345235C@inria.fr> <20050113184137.GA24040@fistandantilus.takhisis.org> <20050113.150239.95895778.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Organization: None X-Spook: Bletchley Park Rand Corporation CID kilderkin ASO Blowpipe STARLAN chameleon man sniper red noise X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Mailer: Mew version 4.1.53 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41F90B8F.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41F90B8F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 binary:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 wrote:01 reasonnable:01 binary:01 usr:01 lib:01 ocaml:01 minor:01 usr:01 lib:01 ocaml:01 findlib:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jacques Garrigue wrote: > > It is reasonnable to assume that 3.08.3 will not be binary compatible. BTW, what about then changing the library locations (e.g. /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08) to include the "minor number" (e.g. /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08.3)? [Applies also to ld.conf, /usr/local, the default findlib location,...] That would make easy to have several versions of OCaml installed on the same machine (especially for /usr/local) and will make it clear one has to recompile existing libraries. My 2¢, ChriS