On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:11:09PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:41:51AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The only trouble for the user maybe that dynamic linking wont be > > > available until they install the ocaml package that will provide > > > /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs as search path for shared objects. This will be > > > a transition situation for few days, IMO is an acceptable problem in > > > unstable and users can safely add these dir to /etc/ocaml/ld.conf > > > solving the problem. > > > > Mmm, did we not speak about putting user installed stuff into > > /usr/local/lib/ocaml/stublibs ? and keeping the /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs > > for the debian packages. > > How is this question related to the reported problem? > > Anyway: yes we talked about this and this is currently possible. You > just have to list that path in ld.conf (and If I have understood > correctly you have already done it in the ocaml 3.05 package), and a > user can install stuff there using findlib and "-destdir" switch or > another special purpose installer.
Well, ideally the default install path of the debian findlib package should be /usr/local/lib/ocaml/stublibs (since it would be used for third party installs or local installs, not packaged stuff), and debian package using finlib would need to specify the -destdir. This is more policy compliant. Friendly, Sven Luther > > Am I missing something? > > Cheers. > > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro > "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not > sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
