Re: Buglet in ocaml-ldconf
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:16:04AM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote:
> > or are you telling me you did read neither of those,
> > nor the discution we had here about it previously, nor even the comment
> > on top of the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file ?
>
> Coold down.
No problem, i was just being a little provocative, that's all.
> Speacking for myself and not for him, I read the documentation but I
> usually don't read/understand every makefile of every non-debian
> package I am testing. I just type make install and if it works it is
> over. But after a week it stops working and I have to figure out why.
Ok, yes, i understand.
But anyway, each library out there seems to have its own opinion on
where things should go.
> And it is not so obvious that the reason is that a debian-ocaml package
> has been installed, changing the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file that
> was mistakenly changed one week before.
Well, the problem is that i couldn't touch to the format of the
/usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file, so we did this 3 file trick.
Ideally, we would have only one file, and have the ocaml-ldconf tool
modify it, but this would need patching the ocaml base quite some, which
we couldn't do.
Apart from the fact that /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf is not the right place
for a file like that, or so says policy.
> > > Perhaps findlib could add entries to a new /etc/ocaml/findlib-ld.conf
> > > file that ocaml-ldconf reads when creating /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf.
> >
> > Why not the simple /etc/ocaml/ld.conf ?
>
> I agree.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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