Marco Maggi wrote: > Ciao, > > I am a True Beginner taking a look at O'Caml; I hope not to be > abusing by posting here rather than the beginners list.
Building OCaml from source is definitely not a beginners' question! :o) > I think I successfully compiled ocaml-3.11.2 on my > i686-pc-linux-gnu, but there seems to be no way to install the package > in a temporary location via the Linux de facto standard DESTDIR > environment variable; is there a way to do it? (I am used to build > custom packages.) I've not come across that way before (by which I mean "you learn a new thing every day"!), the more usual way, which will work with OCaml, is to specify a different root for the -prefix option when you run configure. make install will then install OCaml there. I used to use that when compiling uses OCaml on a machine for which I didn't have root and I used it just the other day to compile OCaml 3.12.0 on Maemo so the switch definitely works. All that said, what distro are you using? Debian and Fedora (and *BSD) all have native packages for OCaml. > The web site[1] is beautiful (no irony) but a lot of > informations look outdated, 4/5 years old; I see many O'Caml related > sites on the Net. Is there one that I can take as reference for the > latest news, for example about still maintained library packages? The Caml Hump I believe has up-to-date information as long as it's submitted. I'm quite lazy and tend only to look for updates to libraries I use when either I hit a bug or am installing on a new machine ... www.ocamlcore.org is a pretty good place to start, I think. David _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
