Re: splitting the ocaml package ???

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:16:25PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:31:08AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > BTW, Does someone have more info about the curses dependency of ocaml ?
> 
> on my sid machine:
> $ dpkg -l ocaml | grep Depends
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), tcl8.3 
> (>= 8.3.2), tk8.3 (>= 8.3.0), xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11), libncurses5-dev
> 
> ocaml depends on libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev which in turn depends
> only on libc6 and on each other.
> 
> Did really ask for this ... ?

No, there is a new option in the ocaml 3.01 configuration file, which is
called -nocurses or something like that. I guess this would enable us to build
ocaml without curses dependency. My question was what is lost by this, and if
it makes sense for us. 

Please notice, that (at least on a xterm) ocaml 3.01 toplevel seem to have
broken del/bs handling, as shown in :

luther@iliana:~/mail/lists$ ocaml
        Objective Caml version 3.01

# sdfgsd^H^H^H^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~

well, this and anyway, up/down arrow don't seem to work. I would have liked
for it to be built against libreadline ...

Anyway, i guess i would need to try it out.

Friendly,

Sven Luther