Splitting pgocaml.

[Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>]

Hello.

Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
> There is at least one existing applications (ocsimore) which dynamically
> loads pgocaml (that was my interest for packaging pgocaml in the first
> place). You should build the cmxs, make two binary packages
> (libpgocaml-ocaml and libpgocaml-ocaml-dev) and put cma/cmxs/META in
> libpgocaml-ocaml, and the rest in -dev package to cope with this
> situation. There is no documentation (besides #500036) for this yet, but
> you can have a look at react or ocaml-text, for example.
>
> > There's also a profiler for pgocaml which is not yet packaged. Should I
> > create another binary package for it? If so, what naming convention
> > should apply for the profiler package?
>
> I would say it depends on how it is used, and its size. This is a
> debugging tool, isn't it? So it could be put in the -dev package. Is it
> 100 times bigger that the library itself? Then, maybe it is worth
> putting it in a separate binary package... I would probably put it in
> -dev first, and wait for someone to give a good reason to put it apart.

It seems that I have some splitting to do. I found the following 
documentation:

	http://wiki.debian.org/PkgSplit

However, I have no idea what should be amended in order to play nicely 
with cdbs. Advice welcome.

My rules file is the following, for the record:

> #!/usr/bin/make -f
> # debian/rules for pgocaml package
> # Copyright (C) 2009 Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>
> #
> # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> # published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
> # your option) any later version.
> #
> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> # General Public License for more details.
> #
> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
> # MA 02110-1301, USA.
>
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/makefile.mk
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/ocaml.mk
>
> DESTDIR_DEV=$(CURDIR)/debian/libpgocaml-ocaml-dev
>
> DEB_MAKE_CLEAN_TARGET    := clean
> ifeq ($(OCAML_HAVE_OCAMLOPT),yes)
> DEB_MAKE_BUILD_TARGET    := all
> DEB_MAKE_INSTALL_TARGET  := findlib_install
> else
> DEB_MAKE_BUILD_TARGET    := all
> DEB_MAKE_INSTALL_TARGET  := findlib_install
> endif
> DEB_MAKE_INSTALL_TARGET  += OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR="$(DESTDIR_DEV)/$(OCAML_STDLIB_DIR)"
>
> OCAML_OCAMLDOC_PACKAGES = libpgocaml-ocaml-dev
> OCAML_OCAMLDOC_OCAMLFIND_FLAGS = -package extlib -package pcre -package csv -package calendar
>
> pre-build::
> 	make depend

All the best,

Guillaume Yziquel.