Re: ocamlopt issue

[Sven Luther <luther@lambda.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:38:08PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:30:45PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:21:37PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > > So we can't have a bytecode versione of ocamlsdl, right?
> > > 
> > >   Not exactly. The configure script requires ocamlopt currently
> > >   and Makefile require both bytecode and opt compilers.
> > >   I think this could be changed by upstream in the future.
> > 
> > In this case: have you tried to change the configure script in the
> > debian version so that we can have ocamlsdl also on arch that don't have
> > a native code compiler ...
> 
>   No, I didn't because it is simply bad practice. We, debian packagers,
>   must avoid to change configure scripts as much as possible.
>   The upstream is not even meant to ship tarballs with configure.in
>   within. Furthermore, Makefile have to be adapted in order to take
>   this option into consideration.

Well, if upstream ships with broken build scripts, you have to fix it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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