Bug#327746: ocaml: [m68k] FTBFS:

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

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:17:06AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:57:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:29:40AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > > > > This has been traced to a tk8.4 issue, and i notice that back then ocaml
> > > > > > 3.08.3-7 built just fine, including the labltk toplevel.
> > > > > 
> > > > > With tk8.4-dev (8.4.9-1) installed ocmal and labltktop build fine.
> > > > 
> > > > Cool, do you have an idea of what the problems was ? Or was tk8.4èdev missing
> > > > from the ocaml build-deps ? 
> > > 
> > > You said the failure was related to tk8.4, so I installed an older version.
> > > With tk8.4 8.4.11-1 the build fails, with 8.4.9-1 it succeeds. Both times
> > > tk8.4 (and tk8.4-dev) were installed of course, since it is in the
> > > build-depends. No idea why it fails with 8.4.11 though, you are the ocaml
> > > expert...
> > 
> > Oh, so we can reassign both those bugs to tk8.4 ?
> 
> Yes

Will you do it, or should we ?

> > Saw the comment of skaller on debian-ocaml-maint ?
> 
> No

http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2005/09/msg00116.html

Starts with :

  Unfortunately I have a good idea what the problem is: in summary,
  Tk is incorrectly built on Debian. This is because upstream
  has no idea how to build it. This is because Ousterhout never
  had any idea how to make dynamic linkage work. This is because
  he never bothered to fix the bug I reported years ago.
  So if this sound a bit like a rant .. well it is .. :)

And an analysis of the gdb backtrace.

Friendly,

Sven Luther