Re: Cameleon packages almost done

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

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:28:29PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:32:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > This leaves more flexibility to the user, and would allow to do a
> > binary:all package build even on a native code supporting arch.
> 
>   Which is only true for libraries. It isn't for binaries since
>   standalone byteocde programs embed the bytecode interpreter
>   which is architecture dependent.

???

I don't understand you.

The idea is to build one package arch: all which you build with the
bytecode compiler (and without the -custom flag). The resulting
executables will be /usr/bin/ocamlrun script, as can be seen with the
ledit package for example :

$ file /usr/bin/ledit
/usr/bin/ledit: a /usr/bin/ocamlrun script text executable

And then upload a second package which conflicts and replace, and
whatver, which contains the native code version.

Friendly,

Sven Luther