Re: 4.04 changes
On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:47:07PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> On 06/11/2016 21:38, Ximin Luo wrote:
> > Upstream have changed their installation process to look like this:
> >
> > /build/ocaml-4.04.0# ls -la debian/tmp/usr/bin/
> > total 105424
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 pbuilder pbuilder 4096 Nov 6 20:30 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 pbuilder pbuilder 4096 Nov 6 20:30 ..
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 11800543 Nov 6 20:30 ocaml
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 pbuilder pbuilder 10 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlc -> ocamlc.opt
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 11192039 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlc.byte
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 10065216 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlc.opt
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 pbuilder pbuilder 11 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlcp -> ocamlcp.opt
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 323766 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlcp.byte
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 2017184 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlcp.opt
> > [..]
> > etc
> >
> > How shall we proceed? I can't install the symlinks as-is because we would then need a circular dependency from ocaml-nox back to ocaml-native-compilers.
> >
> > Maybe now is a good time for Stéphane to step in and do the package merging like we were talking about?
>
> IMHO, the new installation process is cleaner. It's good it has been done
> upstream. Notice how it may introduce incompatibilities. Forcing ocamlc to
> point to ocamlc.byte everywhere (I guess it's already the case for bytecode
> architecture...?) for the sake of keeping ocaml-native-compilers separate
> could also introduce other incompatibilities. I am now all in favour of
> merging ocaml-native-compilers into ocaml-nox.
yes, agreed. -Ralf.
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