Bug#971439: Build procedure is incorrect and produces invalid files
Package: lablgtk3
Version: 3.1.1-1
Dear OCaml maintainers,
as far as I could see this is a general bug on quite a few Debian OCaml
packages; in particular submitting for lablgtk3 but this bug should be
assigned to more packages.
It seems that the build procedure for lablgtk3 is incorrect, see for
example https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/13079 , where the package
contains and invalid META file; moreover as `-p` was not used the wrong
compiler settings were used to build the binaries [for example regarding
optimization]
OCaml packages that use dune as a build system _must_ be built:
- always with `dune build -p $pkg1,$pkg2` for the desired list of packages
and either:
- using the officially released .tbz archive that for example
dune-release produces, which will contain the right metadata for
version numbers, etc...
- or if using a git checkout, `dune subst` _must_ be run before the
build so the metadata is update prior build.
Let us know if we can be of any help.
Kind regards,
Emilio
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