On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:28:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > But going for Xavier's 'only true Unix way', remember that you have to > run ldconfig once you have changed /etc/ld.conf, so it is not that > counter intuitive. And there is a warning on top of /etc/ocaml/ld.conf > about this, if i remember well. The comment states: # On debian systems, this file is read by the ocaml-ldconf # tool, together with /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf, to generate # the standard ocaml /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file. is not clear that you have to rerun ocaml-ldconf after changing /etc/ocaml/ld.conf, IMHO. > > As stated in another mail, findlib is already /etc/ocaml/ld.conf aware! > > Just set CAMLLIB=/etc/ocaml while doing "ocamlfind install" and findlib > > This is a strange thing, the many many different meanings that are given > to CAMLLIB (it is also supposed to point to /usr/lib/ocaml or wherever > ocaml installs its stuff, is it not ?). Indeed is a work around not a real solution. Anyway note that I suggest to local declare CAMLLIB=`pwd` only when doing 'ocamlfind install' and not while doing 'ocamlfind something_else' because CAMLLIB, if set, override the default ocaml library directory. > So you also are in favor of a single directory ? Yes, but also if that policy will spread enough among ocaml developers and if it causes no trouble to the various ocaml* tools. > That said, let's standardize on a single directory, say > /usr/lib/ocaml/shlibs like Xavier suggested, and keep the ocaml-ldconf > around for the cases were the library package don't conform to this > standard. ... indeed but I would really prefer if Xavier will do something more that "suggesting" a directory, he and all the OCaml guys have to publish a policy or something like that IMO. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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