[Caml-list] ocamlbuild/ocamlfind weirdness

[Caml-list] ocamlbuild/ocamlfind weirdness

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I'm trying to roll a Debian package (on Ubuntu Lucid) for the latest
version ocaml-cairo which uses ocamlbuild. The debian/rules file,
boiled down to the core commands looks like this:

    ocaml setup.ml -configure --prefix /usr
    ocaml setup.ml -build
    prefix=$(pwd)/debian/tmp/ ocaml setup.ml -install

with the idea that the software is configured to install in /usr
but that is actually gets installed in $(pwd)/debian/tmp/usr from
where it will get pulled into the package.

The problem is that ocamlfind which is not called directly from my
debian/rules file spits out the following error:

    ocamlfind: /usr/local/lib/ocaml/3.11.2/cairo2/cairo.mli:

even though I specified /usr/ as the prefix.

Any clues to get me going in the right direction?

Cheers,
Erik
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Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild/ocamlfind weirdness

[Stéphane Glondu]

On 11/21/2011 07:48 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I'm trying to roll a Debian package (on Ubuntu Lucid) for the latest
> version ocaml-cairo which uses ocamlbuild. The debian/rules file,
> boiled down to the core commands looks like this:
> [...]
> The problem is that ocamlfind which is not called directly from my
> debian/rules file spits out the following error:
> 
>     ocamlfind: /usr/local/lib/ocaml/3.11.2/cairo2/cairo.mli:
> 
> even though I specified /usr/ as the prefix.
> 
> Any clues to get me going in the right direction?

We usually add these lines in Debian packages:

  DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
  include /usr/share/ocaml/ocamlvars.mk
  OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)/$(OCAML_STDLIB_DIR)
  export OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR

See for example oasis for an oasis-based package.


Cheers,

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Stéphane

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild/ocamlfind weirdness

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Stéphane Glondu wrote:

> We usually add these lines in Debian packages:
> 
>   DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
>   include /usr/share/ocaml/ocamlvars.mk
>   OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)/$(OCAML_STDLIB_DIR)
>   export OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR
> 
> See for example oasis for an oasis-based package.

Thanks Stéphane. Looking at the oasis package helped a lot.

Cheers,
Erik
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