Re: 2 library packaging questions

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:12AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> It is required if you want to be able to distribute a portable bytecode
> executable (Arch: all) which uses the C stub directly from
> libsyslog-ocaml (which will be Arch: any).  You can avoid it by
> distributing bytecode programs linked in the so called custom mode, but
> such executables are not portable, but rather architecture specific as
> they contain an embedded OCaml bytecode interpreter.

That was my understanding too, but I was confused by the fact that my
bytecode program still worked.  It turns out that I had forgotten that
OCamlMakefile uses "ocamlmklib -custom" by default, and I need to
override that in my Makefile.

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