Re: Policy, location of .cma files in binary packages, and dynlink...

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:07:03AM +0100, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> 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.

I must not be understanding this point. Isn't it sufficient that the
.cma files are located under /usr/lib/ocaml/<version>/ ?
What situation are you concerned about, specifically?

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