Re: Bug#599093: dh_ocaml: warns on not resolving dependencies on modules contained in the application
On 05-10-2010, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:
> Le 05/10/2010 14:56, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
>>> Ralf, do you know how to make the difference between internal/external?
>>> Can we trust that every unresolved symbols are externals?
>>
>> How can symbols be unresolved in OCaml executables?
>
> C stubs can be "unresolved", and IIRC dh_ocaml uses dependencies between
> ocaml interfaces to find dependencies to dynamic stubs (dll*.so files).
> This approach is good to find ABI-zed dependencies, but warnings
> generated in this case won't be relevant most of the time.
>
> However, we also have access to dynamic stub dependencies in the
> bytecode executables, so I propose we still use OCaml interfaces to find
> ABI-zed dependencies, get rid of the warning for so-called "unresolved"
> symbols on the OCaml side, and issue warnings for dll*.so that cannot be
> found.
>
Fine for me. Since I added this warning, I was not sure if it was really
mandatory or not.
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
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