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 BAA31775; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:49:33 +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 BAA25509 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:49:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0Q0nQv19173 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:49:26 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 30424 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2002 00:49:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kronstadt) ([64.81.49.223]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jan 2002 00:49:24 -0000 Received: from itz by kronstadt with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16UH24-0003ws-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:49:24 -0800 To: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiler ActiveDVI (CVS) References: <3C5107ED.4030508@free.fr> <20020125151002.B16553@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> <20020126075921Y.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> From: Ian Zimmerman Date: 25 Jan 2002 16:49:23 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020126075921Y.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: <86pu3ylywc.fsf@speakeasy.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Sven> No, the include files are in /usr/include/caml on a debian Sven> system as the FHS mandates. Jacques> That doesn't seem to be a good thing to do. Objective Caml Jacques> has only one standard: a unique distribution. So has Debian - that's why it exists at all. It is one thing that distinguishes it from e.g. RedHat, which generally just takes the upstream defaults for configurations, and the result is a mess as one would expect. Jacques> If you start to mess around with the directories, this is not Jacques> very helpful for anybody. Yes, it is: to people with experience on Debian, but none on Ocaml. Which is exactly the sort of people that would install a binary package, I think. The way I did it when I built Ocaml from sources was with a symlink, so that it existed in both places. BTW, /usr/include/ocaml (to match the package name) would be a better name. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr