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Re: /usr/include/caml && /usr/include/ocaml



On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:53:07PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Dear Sven,
>   in the current ocaml package I've installed on my own machine (ocaml
> 3.04-7 on a debian unstable) all ocaml related header files are now
> installed in /usr/include/ocaml instead of /usr/include/caml.
> 
> This is a more appropiate place but many of the old bindings that use
> that include files, look for them in /usr/include/caml and therefore
> fails while compiling.

Huh

There are supposed to be simlinks in place, are they not ?

One from /usr/include/ocaml to /usr/lib/ocaml/caml and another to
/usr/include/caml ?

I will have to look at it, thanks for the report.

Maybe i should rename them to /usr/include/caml, just to be sure.

> I know that this a fault in that bindings that assume the directory caml
> exists instead of detecting it in the configure, but for a more "light"
> transition I think that you can use a symlink /usr/include/ocaml that
> points to /usr/include/caml (think about the /var/spool/mail ->
> /var/mail transition).

Yes, i added them, i don't know where they get lost.

> I suggest you to include this patch in the new ocaml 3.04-8 package that
> you are about to upload ...

I will have a look at them, thanks ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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