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Bug#219370: unusual place for camlidlruntime.h



Hello,

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:24:39AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:28:05PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:05:27AM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> > > I was just recompiling some of my libs, when i have seen that
> > > camlidlruntime.h is now standing in /usr/include/ocaml/3.07/camlidl.
> > > 
> > > I think it is the right place, however, caml install his header in
> > > /usr/lib/ocaml...
> > 
> > Thanks for your support to my idea of installing it there :-)
> > An even more authoritative answer can be found directly in FHS:
> > 
> >  4.3  /usr/include : Directory for standard include files.
> > 
> >  This is where all of the system's general-use include files for the C
> >  and C++ programming languages should be placed.
> > 
> > camlidlruntime.h is definitely in this category.
> > 
> > If noone objects I will close this bug.
> > 
> > > Any idea ? ( maybe this bug should not go there but to ocaml package ).
> > 
> > Yes: report the bug to the ocaml BTS. Anyway I doubt that anyone is
> > going to consider this as a bug there too, since noone of the caml team
> > apparently cares about FHS ...
> 
> Notice that i definitively have a symlink from /usr/include/caml and
> ocaml to /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/caml.
> 
> Easier to do than creating a separate 3.07 directory in
> /usr/include/ocaml, and my symlink will probably break your stuff.

What about doing a dir /usr/include/ocaml/3.07/ with ocaml header in it
and link it to /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/caml. This won't break anything and
will permit to do a FHS compliant thing !

I am not an expert so i let you choose.

Kind regard
Sylvain LE GALL



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