Re: ocaml 3.07beta2 is up at people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Quoting Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>:
>
>
> > > I don't like this, it messes up the .diff.gz file with lot of useless
> > > config* stuff. What is the best way to handling this ?
> >
> >
> > Having upstream update their files more often, maybe .. :-)
> >
> > As far as I have understood, having up-to-date files is important for
> > porting issues, mostly on exotic architectures. I learned about this
> > when I got FTBFS'ed because one of my package did not build anymore on
> > ARM, IA64 or whatever.....
>
> Those files are not used at all, that's why they are outdated.
> Ocaml uses its own handwritten configure file. See ocaml-3.07/configure
>
> Sven you don't have to bother with them.
But configure uses the config.xxx stuff to guess the architecture.
Also, the config.xxx patching stuff is not playing nice with dpatch,
another reason not to like it. If we had a config.dpatch automatically
generated, it would be ok though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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