On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 03:44:24PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:40:05PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > I attach a Perl script that do the dirty work: it scans the > > > /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf and if it find spurious entry (e.g. directories > > > that doesn't effictively contain shared objects) it tries to remove them > > > using ocaml-ldconf. > > > It skips system directories like /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs and > > > /usr/local/lib/ocaml/<version>/stublibs. > > > > No, i don't like it much. > > > > I think the per package thingy would be best, but feel free to argue > > with me about it, i am not strongly in favour of any of the solutions. > > Uhm, so you are thinking about a script that scans > /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf and remove entries that are no longer needed?
Yes, since this is the only dir handled by dpkg. More to the point, i would also like the scanning to be handled by each library package, and not centralized in the ocaml-base package. > Our problem are the spurious entries in /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf so I > start searching for spurious paths there ... Well, /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf is generated by /var/... and /etc/..., and we should not worry about spuirous paths in /etc/... Friendly, Sven Luther
