Re: Problems building OCaml-3.01: Tk not found
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:16:24AM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:06:59 +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Because on a unstable system (don't know about potato) the configure scipt
> > will not detect the 8.3 version correctly.
>
> It works correctly for potato.
ok, ...
> > I looked at the source and saw that
> > this is because it place stuff in a tcl8.3/tk8.3 subdirectory, and configure
> > cannot handle it.
> >
> > No problem, we just gie it the argument, it you want to build for another
> > version of tcl/tk, just remove the lines, or replace them with what you need.
> > For the official packages we are staying with 8.3, and the package will build
> > just fine.
>
> OK. But I think that maybe a better solution is just to use the parameters
> you passed to configure as a suggestion: if it can't find the library
> where suggested, just revert to the automatic search.
This is a upstream thingy, i can mess with the configure script, but prefer to
do this as little as possible.
> I know that "compatibility" with the lovely old potato is not a clue,
> but if it is so cheap I would like to have it. Specially because almost
> any other ocaml-package compiles well on potato.
mmm, is it so much of a disconfort ?
I may be willing to give it a try if there is a true need for it (and
naturally, i accept patches) ...
> > I think we can say that we are slowly approaching freeze time,
>
> How much slowly?
Don't know, but i feel it is about time. There were speaks of april/may, but i
don't know for usre, or even if my memory is good on this.
> > and as such,
> > soon we will have to have finalized packages. I hope everything is well, don't
> > know if doing the binary split before the freeze is worth it, what do you
> > think ?
>
> Not sure. Probably not.
mmm, let's have other opinions on this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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