Re: 4.04 changes
Ralf Treinen:
> 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.
>
I'll be at the mirageOS hackathon next week and that should be a good environment to continue with this.
If anyone has specific ideas on how to merge these two packages please let me know, otherwise I'll see if I can just make it up as I go along.
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