Bug#335578: ocamlopt.opt segfaults on Alpha

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

(Falk, please tell us if you don't want to be CC'ed to further answers)

Quoting Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr):
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:39:26AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Quoting Falk Hueffner (falk@debian.org):
> > 
> > > This breaks building geneweb and probably a whole bunch of other
> > 
> > Which could be ween as "breaks unrelated software" by the way.
> > 
> > I'm not fond of overflated severities but, well, my pet package
> > (geneweb) is actually blocked by this....so I really hope that someone
> > will be able to take care of this.
> 
> Christian, can you rebuild geneweb using bytecode on alpha, and downgrade this
> bug to important ? 


The bug actually *is* important and I do not really intent to make it
"serious".

I'm not sure about the right way to recompile geneweb with bytecode on
alpha.

Actually, this is done in debian/rules with:

PACKAGE=geneweb
WAY=$(shell if [ -f "/usr/bin/ocamlc.opt" ]; then echo "opt";           \
        else echo "out";                                                \
        fi)


Then $WAY is used to compile one way or another.

I guess that adding a specific test for Alpha architecture here would
be the Right Hack.

Something like:

DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS)

ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),alpha)
	WAY=out
else
	WAY=$(shell if [ -f "/usr/bin/ocamlc.opt" ]; then echo "opt";           \
        else echo "out";                                                \
        fi)
endif