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 UAA21328; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:35:09 +0200 (MET DST) 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 UAA21399 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:35:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mg.ihep.su (mg.ihep.su [194.190.161.38]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4FIZ6H16302 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:35:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by mg.ihep.su (Postfix, from userid 65436) id 8CE87B50FA; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:35:01 +0400 (MSD) Received: from ontil.ihep.su (ontil.ihep.su [194.190.161.63]) by mg.ihep.su (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6125CB5047 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:34:56 +0400 (MSD) Received: from localhost (vsl@localhost) by ontil.ihep.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4FHdh113331 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:39:43 +0400 Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:39:43 +0400 (MSD) From: Vitaly Lugovsky To: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml packaging problems In-Reply-To: <20020515120532.GA23062@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 May 2002, Sven Luther wrote: > > Concerning this ld.conf issue, I disagree both with Sven Luther's solution > > (a tool that adds/removes lines from this file) and with Vitaly > > Lugovsky's suggestion (multiple configuration files in a directory). > > Would you care to argument a bit more about this, apart from the 'it is > not the unix way' argument you give below that is. > > and BTW, ocaml-ldconf does not really add/remove lines from the > /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file, it uses two separate files > (/etc/ocaml/ld.conf and /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf) which are modified and > used to generate the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf. > > It is a nice concept (even if it is me saying it) that clearly separate > the system administrator stuff (/etc/ocaml/ld.conf) from the > dpkg/rpm/whatever handled stuff (/var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf), with the > former taking precedence over the later. In no way does it modify the > way ocaml handles this, and is thus a purely external tool doing its > jjob correctly. This concept looks like ls-R file in the teTeX distribution. And all packagers knows that this file is quite a problem. So, as for me, I choosed the way suggested by Xavier Leroy - every .so file have simlink in %_libdir/ocaml/site-lib/, while the other library stuff located in the separate directory. ------------------- 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