Re: Starting a transition to ocaml 3.09.2
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> Fedora uses a patch to make sure ocamlmklib doesn't
>> set the rpath in generated libraries:
>> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/lxr/extras/source/devel/ocaml/ocaml-rpath.patch
>>
>> I have never seen a case when the rpath setting was necessary, can
>> anyone explain what it's there for?
>
> I didn't look at the patch, but my feeling is the same: no need of rpath
> for ocaml .so. They are indeed outside the standard ld.so directories,
> but it doesn't matter since they are in a predefined path, known by the
> ocaml interpreter.
The patch looked fine to me and I integrated it in the caml I uploaded
to experimental. We should keep this in mind in case it brings some
problems with the libraries...
Cheers,
Samuel.
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