Re: ocaml 3.04-3 uploaded
Sorry for the long delay ...
Yes, i like this solution, i will implement it nextly, but i will upload the
-5 package without it in the meantime, since it contains many stuff needed by
other people, and also i would very much like to know how the different
architectures handle the ocaml-native-compilers/ocaml-nbest-compilers stuff.
Saddly, the ld.conf file doesn't allow any kind of comment in the front of the
package, but i will try to hack the corresponding bit of the ocaml source in
order to allow it.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:06:15PM +0100, Sven wrote:
> [...]
> > Mmm, Xavier told me that ld.conf was built using /etc/ld.conf as example, so
> > it is more a configuration file.
> >
> > Also it makes sense to let users modify them by hand, imagine people adding a
> > homebuilt library or something such, without any knowledge of how debian
> > works.
> >
> > That said, we could imagine handling 2 such databases ?
>
> This indeed looks like a good idea. Here is a suggestion:
> * /etc/ocaml/paths: configuration file which is manually edited
> by sysadmins
> * /var/lib/ocaml/dpkg-paths: file automatically modified by dpkg
> (its name is dpkg-paths in this mail to distinguish it from the
> previous one, but it could be /var/lib/ocaml/paths).
> * /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf: this file is generated by merging the 2 previous
> ones.
>
> File syntax:
> i. paths:
> <directory> <action>
> where
> * directory is ..... guess what?
> * action:
> add add a directory to search path before system wide settings
> addafter add a directory to search path after system wide settings
> discard remove a directory from search path even if it is defined
> in dpkg-paths
> ii. dpkg-paths:
> <directory> add <package>
> where <package> is the name of the package which inserted this entry.
>
> Thus both files can be described by a similar syntax:
> <directory> <action> <package>
> the 3rd field being optional.
> Allowing comments (with an hash sign for instance) would be nice.
>
> The ocaml-ldconf is used to insert and remove entries from dpkg-paths,
> and generate ld.conf.
> It could accept the following options:
> -p package sets package name
> -a dir adds a line `dir add package' into dpkg-paths if such
> a line does not exist
> -r dir remove lines `dir add package' from dpkg-paths if found
> -n do not update ld.conf
>
> When invoked without -n flag, ocaml-ldconf regenerates ld.conf this way:
> * it reads paths line by line, and builds
> a) D1: list of directories to insert before system dirs
> b) D2: list of directories to insert after system dirs
> c) I: list of directories to ignore
> * after that, it reads dpkg-paths line by line, and builds a directory
> list D3 by skipping those found in I.
> Then D1+D3+D2 is written into /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf
> It would also be nice if a warning line could be added to ld.conf to
> prevent users from manually editing this file.
>
> Last, ocaml-ldconf could be called directly by sysadmin to update ld.conf
> after editing paths, or by maintainer scripts with arguments:
> * in postinst:
> ocaml-ldconf -p package -a dir1 -a dir2 -a dir3
> * in postrm:
> ocaml-ldconf -p package -r dir1 -r dir2 -r dir3
>
> Denis
>
>
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