Bug#584546: sexplib: sexplib.cmxa with superflous dependencies to big_int, nat, num, bigarray and ratio

[Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>]

Hello,


Sexplib has a function sexp_of_big_int and big_int_of_sexp, which means
that Big_int is required. The findlib's META file agreed.

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:41:08PM +0200, Andreas Romeyke wrote:
> Package: libsexplib-camlp4-dev
> Version: 3.7.4-3+b1
> Severity: normal
> File: sexplib
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am not sure if I am wrong, but compiling the attached ml-file with
> ocamlbuild:
> 
> ocamlbuild -j 2 -quiet -tags debug -no-links -cflags "-I +sexplib"
> -lflags "-I +sexplib" -libs "sexplib" -pp "camlp4o
> /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/type-conv/pa_type_conv.cmo
> /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/sexplib/pa_sexp_conv.cmo " main_testsexplib.native
> 
> I got the following compile error:
> 
> No implementations provided for the following modules:
>   Big_int referenced from
>   /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/sexplib/sexplib.cmxa(Sexplib)
>     Nat referenced from
> 	/usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/sexplib/sexplib.cmxa(Sexplib)
> 	  Num referenced from
> 	  /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/sexplib/sexplib.cmxa(Sexplib)
> 	    Bigarray referenced from
> 		/usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/sexplib/sexplib.cmxa(Sexplib)
> 		  Ratio referenced from
> 		  /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2/sexplib/sexplib.cmxa(Sexplib)
> 		  Command exited with code 2.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0.4
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages libsexplib-camlp4-dev depends on:
> ii  camlp4                        3.10.2-3   Pre Processor Pretty Printer for O
> ii  libtype-conv-camlp4-dev       1.5.0-3+b1 support library for OCaml preproce
> ii  ocaml-findlib                 1.2.1-5    Management tool for OCaml programm
> ii  ocaml-nox [ocaml-nox-3.10.2]  3.10.2-3   ML language implementation with a 
> 
> libsexplib-camlp4-dev recommends no packages.
> 
> libsexplib-camlp4-dev suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information

> open Sexplib
> open Sexp
> open Conv
> 
>   TYPE_CONV_PATH "Conv_test"
> 
> type all_t = 
>     Foo
>   | Bar  of int
>   | Baz of string list
>              with sexp
> ;;
> 
> let _ =
>   let bla=Foo in
>     Printf.printf "sexp:%s\n" (Sexp.to_string_hum (sexp_of_all_t bla))

Cheers
Sylvain Le Gall