Hi Ocaml maintainers! Am 2003-04-11 11:11 +0200 schrieb Sven Luther: > > It seems to be against Debian policy to use rpath; on the other hand, > > the ocaml linker does not seem to allow disabling it (at least the > > documentation says nothing about this issue). > > Well, see the huge flamewars about this on debian-mentors some time > back. It didn't resulted in any conclusive result though. Hmm, that's a pity. > > lintian says: > > > > W: planets: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/planets > > /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib > > N: > > N: The binary or shared library defines the `RPATH'. Usually this is a > > N: bad thing. Most likely you will find a Makefile with a line like: > > N: gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath > > N: or > > N: gcc test.o -o test -R/usr/local/lib > > N: Please contact debian-devel@lists.debian.org if you have questions > > N: about this. > > Just ignore it or add a override. Okay, if the ocaml maintainer himself tells me that, I feel assured to do that. :-) Another DD pointed me at the tool "chrpath" which is able to remove the RPATH in a library. Would you recommend using that? > I will try to have a look at your package this evening, if you give > me a pointer to it. Ups. I just started yesterday evening, the package is not yet in a good shape (no manpage yet, Makefile needs to be adapted, does not yet support non-native compiling, etc.). However, these are quite independent from the rpath issue, so if you are willing to take the time, I would be pleased, of course. The package's name is "planets" (see RFP #187988, ITP'ed by me) and I will always upload the current version to my hompage, where they are referenced by http://www.piware.de/Sources.gz > That said : > > 1) have you read the ocaml packaging policy in /usr/share/doc/ocaml ? Of course. It was helpful for various packaging considerations, but does not mention rpath. > 2) There is a debian-ocaml-maint mailing list that is maybe more > suited to discusing things related to packaging ocaml stuff, and i > will CC this mail there, where you may want to subscribe if you are > going to maintain ocaml related stuff. Thanks and sorry for choosing the wrong list. Have a nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: martin@piware.de Verteidigen Sie Ihre Freiheit und Ihre Rechte! Stoppt TCPA! Defend your freedom and your rights! Stop TCPA! http://www.notcpa.org
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