Re: Policy, location of .cma files in binary packages, and dynlink...
On 21-01-2008, Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> Comments?
>
> Just a small but important point about dependencies: I guess that cma
> are not ABI compatible between two different versions of OCaml. This
> means that there should be a way to specify in the dependencies that the
> cma was compiled with such version of OCaml. Unfortunately, bytecode
> programs don't always depend on ocaml-base-nox-N.NN (when compiled with
> -custom for example) and there should be support for dynamic loading of
> cmxa in native code in a foreseeable future.
>
> So how do we enforce consistent dependencies?
>
> The easiest way I see for now is to create an empty package
> ocaml-abi-N.NN and make libraries and programs doing dynamic loading
> depend on this package but this is quite intrusive and heavy. Does
> anybody has a better idea?
>
+1
As usual, there is no good solution with this problem. The
ocaml-abi-N.NN package is a "not so bad" choice.
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
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