Re: Build-Depends on ocamlbuild (was: Preparation of the transition to OCaml 4.05.0: status update)
Hi Eric,
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 01:28:24PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 07:33:44AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 03:40:12PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:20:57AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> > > > Yes: ocamlbuild has been split out of ocaml and is a separate package.
> > > > You need to explicitly depend on it. Note that the ocaml-nox package
> > > > that is currently in unstable provides ocamlbuild, so you can add the
> > > > dependency right now.
> > >
> > > Since it's currently virtual, it looks like I need to add
> > > "ocamlbuild | ocaml-nox" as the build dependency
> > > (in addition to another one on just ocaml-nox).
> > > Is that correct?
> >
> > no, this will not work, due to a limitation of the autobuilders. Instead,
> > if you have already a build-dependency on ocaml-nox, you should
> > replace it by "ocaml-nox, ocamlbuild".
>
> That's what I tried first, but I get this failure from "gbp
> buildpackage" (using pbuilder):
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy : Depends: ocamlbuild which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package
apt-get update ? If you do an "apt-get show ocaml-nox" you need to see
version 4.02.3-10, only from that version on does ocaml provide ocamlbuild.
-Ralf.
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