Re: both native & bytecode
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 07:21:45PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few comments on your control file, I might be wrong since I
> don't really know ara :
> * if you don't need the Graphics or Tk modules, you should depend on the
> -nox versions of the packages (in particular for ara which does not
> require X, I guess). Anyway you don't need to depend on ocaml,
> ocaml-base and ocaml-base-nox since ocaml-base-nox is implied by
> ocaml-base which is implied by ocaml. So I would simply put
> ocaml-nox-3.08 in the Build-Depends.
> * Does xara-gtk really use lablgl? (it's in the build-deps)
It is transitivily depended by lablgtk2 anyway.
> * You should not build-depend on ocaml-native-compilers since it is not
> available on some non-native archs. You could depend on
> ocaml-best-compilers but anyway your app is, I guess, small enough not
> to require native compilers when available.
I thought so at first, but had second thought about it. Ara does pretty heavy
status file parsing, and it seem to know over 20k packages on my install (sid
+ some stuff), so altough this is disk bound, a native code version is well
waranted (unless i am missing something).
> * I don't really see the point in providing both ara and ara-byte (and
> idem for xara-gtk). You could simply provide an ara package which
> contains native ara on archs which support that and bytecode else.
No, please don't. The nice thing with this is that the bytecode version gets
built only one time, so you save 3 times the space, and don't need to build on
mipsel, mips, m68k and s390. For this alone, it is worth it. I do this for
spamoracle, and it works fairly well, and is a setup i am particularly proud
of.
> * I think you don't need to explicitely specify the lib dependencies for
> xara-gtk: they should be automatically put by the ${shlibs:Depends}. The
> only thing you need is liblablgtk2-ocaml (which should be there).
Yep, dh_shlibsdep is not (yet) knowledgeable of ocaml library dependencies.
I wonder if this is something possible without ocamlfind though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Reply to: