Bug#219370: unusual place for camlidlruntime.h
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:00:26PM +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...
>
> I realized only not the exact nature of this bug, sorry.
>
> Ocaml install in /usr/lib/ocaml and has a link /usr/include/caml ->
> /usr/lib/ocaml. camlidl installs in /usr/include/ocaml/3.07/caml/ but
> there's no link pointing at it.
>
> The result is that there's not /usr/include/caml/camlidlruntime.h at
> all! This is definitely BAD, because #include "caml/camlidlruntime.h"
> wont work. It is definitely supposed to work!
>
> The reason, Sven, is that you moved ocaml headers to /usr/lib/... and I
> hadn't noticed it ...
>
> What about the solution. Uhm ... I actually think that is an ocaml bug
> to have headers installed there. They should be installed in
> /usr/include/caml without any link.
>
> That simlink moreover is useless, since we decided not to support more
> that one ocaml version at a time. There is no need to have simlink,
> headers can be directly installed in /usr/include/caml. Both ocaml
> headers and camlidl headers.
Well, the change was done back then when this was not yet decided, and i
still may create a ocaml-snapshot package that is // installable, so .
> I think you, Sven, can add a symlink from /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/caml/ to
> /usr/include/caml if you think someone is looking for headers there, but
> definitely not the other way round.
I will see what happens about this when i get time to remove bignum,
probably next week, but i think it brings more trouble that it is worth,
since i will then install in /usr/include/ocaml/3.07/caml, and symlink
to both /usr/include/caml and /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/caml.
We need a policy update about this. Is the new XML policy already ok to
look into ?
BTW, Could you perhaps build a camlimage2 package ? It is currently not
possible to have camlimages and lablgtk2 installed at the same time.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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