From: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
To: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiling the ocaml distribution under multiarched Debian/Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F102F24.9050000@glondu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOOOohS4cjEJTign_By_uXzfZa=12=QxHLPCagY-x_NvEU1v3Q@mail.gmail.com>
Le 13/01/2012 12:59, Philippe Veber a écrit :
> Debian and Ubuntu have not so recently switched to multiarch binaries
> (including libs, see http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation).
> This is an important change for ocaml C bindings since the libraries are
> now to be found in /usr/lib/<arch description> instead of /usr/lib. I
> was just bitten by this, when realizing that the ocaml configure script
> couldn't find libX11.so and wouldn't install graphics. A similar problem
> was handled by the people in charge of debian ocaml packages
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619344). Now my
> question is the following: will this evolution be a problem for GODI/odb
> packages (and more generally source distribution), and what is the
> advised fix for it?
My advice would be to rely on pkg-config (a kind of ocamlfind for C
libraries), or similar scripts (pcre-config, etc.) provided by the
libraries. Otherwise, there is no good, portable (I mean, not
Debian-specific) way to guess where a library is, and the packager will
give an explicit path in his call to the configure script in
debian/rules. By the way, this is what we did for ocaml [1].
[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/ocaml.git;a=commitdiff;h=1db9b654b7d8b702cddb44df5aea1982f3120883
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 11:59 Philippe Veber
2012-01-13 12:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 12:44 ` Philippe Veber
2012-01-13 14:21 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-13 13:18 ` Stéphane Glondu [this message]
2012-01-13 13:56 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 14:17 ` Philippe Veber
2012-01-13 15:22 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 16:13 ` Adrien
2012-01-13 16:47 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-01-13 16:53 ` Philippe Veber
2012-01-14 15:06 ` Philippe Veber
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