Re: Circular build dependencies?

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Dear Norbert,

Le 08/11/2022 à 10:47, Stéphane Glondu a écrit :
> > I am working on backports of unison to oldstable and stable, and
> > realized that it seems there is a build-dependency loop:
> >     ocaml-dune b-depends on libcsexp-ocaml-dev
> >     libcsexp-ocaml-dev b-depends on ocaml-dune
> > How is one supposed to kick-start the build process when there is no
> > version ocaml-dune available at all?
>
> Actually, libcsexp-ocaml-dev is needed only for building 
> libdune-ocaml-dev. It should be easy to make a build profile without the 
> dependency on libcsexp-ocaml-dev.

I added the "pkg.ocaml-dune.nocsexp" build profile in the git repository:

https://salsa.debian.org/ocaml-team/ocaml-dune/-/commit/3ddff6fba11017b55aea08d6524c3bd8170363e7

and I tried building with and without it. Everything seems to work as 
expected.


Cheers,

--
Stéphane