Bug#219370: unusual place for camlidlruntime.h

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:08:21AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:42:45AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Even if it's not I proposed, I see no problem in seeing two symlink
> points at a common destination. What I'm proposing is not to install in
> /usr/include/ocaml/3.07/caml, but directly in /usr/include/caml.

No. That will never happen. I had this before, and it was cause for more
trouble than usefullness. I even have some stuff in the postinst or
something which deletes old stale symlinks of this kind, which caused
such upgrades.

Friendly,

Sven Luther