Re: Accepted ocamldbi 0.9.3.cvs.58-1 (i386 source)

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

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:47:48PM -0400, John Goerzen wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:39:41 -0500
> Source: ocamldbi
> Binary: libdbi-ocaml libdbi-ocaml-dev
> Architecture: source i386
> Version: 0.9.3.cvs.58-1
> Distribution: unstable
> Urgency: low
> Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> Changed-By: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> Description: 
>  libdbi-ocaml - Database Independent Interface (DBI) for Objective CAML, bytecode
>  libdbi-ocaml-dev - Database Independent Interface (DBI) for Objective CAML, developm
> Changes: 
>  ocamldbi (0.9.3.cvs.58-1) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * New upstream release.
>    * Rebuilt for OCaml 3.08.
>    * No longer build OCamlODBC driver; upstream doesn't support it well.

I am trying to build mod-caml from Richard Jones, and am having trouble
building it without all the ocamldbi backends included. The default upstream
mod-caml only uses postgresql, but building it fails with a message about
mysql. Adding the mysql stuff then fails with a similar message about perl : 

  -cclib "-fPIC -shared -L/usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/postgres -lpostgres -lpq
  -L/usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/mysql  -lcamlrun -ltermcap -lunix -lstr "
  Error while linking /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08/dbi/dbi.cma(Dbi_perl):
  Reference to undefined global `Perl'
  make: *** [mod_caml.so] Erreur 2

I suppose i would have to add all the ocamldbi backends when linking. Is this
really what we want ? Is there not another more clean solution ? 


And if they are all needed, should findlib not pull them in ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther