From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DDBDBC57 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:36:20 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AthEAOVQi0tQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACRLolgFQEBFiQipjeSdIR7BIVkhA4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,560,1262559600"; d="scan'208";a="45751558" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Mar 2010 14:36:19 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nm5nB-0005XE-Qh for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:36:13 +0100 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:36:13 +0100 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:36:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: [newbie] miscellaneous on installation and web site Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <877hpw9om6.fsf@rapitore.luna> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-11 (Linux) X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 o'caml:01 ocaml-:01 destdir:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 apt-get:01 o'caml:01 beginners:01 wrote:01 caml:02 caml:02 newbie:02 hump:02 hump:02 Hello, On 01-03-2010, Marco Maggi wrote: > Ciao, > > I am a True Beginner taking a look at O'Caml; I hope not > to be abusing by posting here rather than the beginners > list. > > I think I successfully compiled ocaml-3.11.2 on my > i686-pc-linux-gnu, but there seems to be no way to install > the package in a temporary location via the Linux de facto > standard DESTDIR environment variable; is there a way to do > it? (I am used to build custom packages.) > If you are really a beginner, I will really recommend to you using your distribution OCaml packages, no matter if its ocaml 3.10.2 or 3.11.2. Debian and Fedora provide packages (apt-get install ocaml on Debian). > The web site[1] is beautiful (no irony) but a lot of > informations look outdated, 4/5 years old; I see many O'Caml > related sites on the Net. Is there one that I can take as > reference for the latest news, for example about still > maintained library packages? > > [1] caml.inria.fr and the Hump is a pretty good place to start: http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.fr.cgi The site available here are also good points to start with: http://caml.inria.fr/resources/index.fr.html and especially http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/ Then you have ocamlcore.org related websites: - http://www.ocamlcore.org: entry point of ocamlcore.org - http://planet.ocamlcore.org: for the latest (general) news of the OCaml community - http://forge.ocamlcore.org: participate to various OCaml projects or create your own Regards, Sylvain Le Gall