Re: Hi, packaging mldonkey, rpath + other questions
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 02:34:45AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 10:09:50AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm packaging mldonkey and on debian-mentors it was suggested to join
> > > this ML. So here I am.
> > >
> > > And of cause I have questions:
> > >
> > > 1. lintian complains about rpath being set. How do I tell ocamlopt to
> > > not use rpath?
> >
> > You do not, you could use an lintian override to avoid the waring
> > though.
> >
> > Upstream choose to use rpath, and when i asked on d-m, a huge flameware
> > about the usage of rpath followed, which didn't give me a conclusive
> > answer in any direction. Upstream mostly ignored my question (well they
> > responded, but they like rpath).
>
> The problem with rpath, as far as I gathered from various falmes, is
> that you depend on the library your build with. Slight changes of the
> libraries make the binary unusable, like moving the library or version
> changes. Without rpath it still find the library.
Yes, do you want to argue with upstream ?
> > > 2. mldonkey uses ocamlopt.opt but ocamlopt works as well. Which of the
> > > two should I use? Should I build-depend on eigther or conflict with
> > > one?
> >
> > You should build depend on ocaml-best-compilers, and do a test for the
> > presence of ocamlopt.opt before using it.
> >
> > Make sure you have a fallback to use bytecode (ocamlc) if ocamlopt is
> > not present, or you will get _plenty_ of bug report, as your package
> > will _not_ build on m68k, hppa, mips, mipsel and maybe some other i am
> > missing.
>
> When I do "make byte" I still get an elf binary. Is there a way to
> make a binary-all ocaml program? Since its bytecode it seems like a
> big waste to have the same bytecode for every arch.
Remove the -custom option.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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