From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q1QE9aYW022783 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:09:36 +0100 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,485,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="146070340" Received: from walapai.inria.fr ([128.93.30.24]) by mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 26 Feb 2012 15:09:31 +0100 Received: from walapai.inria.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q1QE9V9v022780 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:09:31 +0100 Received: (from sympa@localhost) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.12.10/Submit) id q1QE9UM8022779 for caml-list@inria.fr; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:09:30 +0100 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:09:30 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: walapai.inria.fr: sympa set sender to sympa@inria.fr using -f To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Jonathan Kimmitt In-Reply-To: 000501ccf474$4d5c2590$e81470b0$@metastack.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Latest OCaml + Libraries on CentOS If you use centos 6.2 you will find many source packages from the latest fedora are compatible using 'rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm', followed by yum install of the resulting binary. If you get the version of fedora package with a matching libc version it is sometimes possible to install the binary from fedora directly. Other distributions which are rpm based can be used as sources as well, however sometimes the package options and selections are quite different and dependencies are problematic. The benefit of rpmbuild over building the sources directly is that flags etc are built-in, you know it worked for some previous user, and the prerequisites for building are identified for you, instead of getting a mysterious build failure later on.