Re: Cameleon build failures
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:09:37PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> En réponse à Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:
>
>
> > What is the problem here ?
>
> Bus error, as the log shows.
Maybe a hardware problem on the sparc build box ? Or a result of the gcc
3.2 transition on sparc ?
> > Why do you rebuild the full ocaml, this is not needed, and i am
> > seriously thinking of scrapping the ocaml-source package, in favour of
> > the following practive.
>
> Why do you want to scrapp something I need? The point is that I get a
> bus error.
Because i don't like ocaml source.
> > 1) i may ship some files some people need in their packages if they
> > are well identified and there is a reason for them being there.
> >
> > 2) package who need some of the files of ocaml-source should
> > integrate
> > said files in their package. This should be only a few files.
>
> I already worked on this and it is far more complicated than
> shipping some files. In my case, there are so many dependencies,
> that it is simple to build against a self-compiled ocaml-source.
This is something i need to discuss with your upstream i think, not you.
> > I know we already discussed this on this list some time back, i will
> > have to check the list archive, which i cannot do right now. In the
> > meatime i wouldlike to have :
> >
> > 1) a list of packages (and maintainers) which use ocaml-source, so
> > each of you who use ocaml-source, please tell it to me, and tell me
> > what exactly you need.
>
> I need ocaml-source.
>
> > 2) a list of non-packaged stuff which needs ocaml-source, or people
> > who use it for their personal need.
>
> I don't see any problem in providing such a package. I don't
> understand why you suddenly want to remove it.
I never liked it, it is huge, and not really needed.
> > 3) The opinion of Maxence on the cameleon issue. I know that Maxence
> > is susbcribed here, but i will cc him just in case.
> >
> > depending on the ocaml source is really a loosy way of coding, i know
> > sometime it cannot be helped, but let's try to avoid that as often as
> > possible.
>
> I'm ceasing camelon packaging anyway, so I'm not going to be
> annoyed by your choices.
I am not going to remove ocaml-source, just seeing if it cannot be
removed.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
>
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