hello dear ocaml maintainers, I have zero knowledge of ocaml, but need to build it with changes as a build dependency for something else I am experimenting with. doing that I stumbled over something very puzzling, perhaps you could help me understand it:
debian/rules in ocaml (3.12.1) calls dh_ocaml, from the package dh-ocaml on which it depends. so far so good. dh_ocaml, more specifically /usr/bin/ocaml-md5sums, then calls ocamlobjinfo which is part of ocaml-nox, but dh-ocaml does not depend on ocaml-nox. not a problem, I can set OCAMLOBJINFO in the environment to the ocamlobjinfo which just got built by ocaml itself. but the shebang line on that calls /usr/bin/ocamlrun, which again would required ocaml installed. I can even get around that by setting OCAMLOBJINFO to "<somepath>/ocamlrun <somepath>/ocamlobjinfo", circumventing the shebang. but ocamlobjinfo seems to call /usr/lib/ocaml/objinfo_helper, which I can't seem to find a way around. so to me this looks a bit like dh-ocaml would need a dependency on ocaml, which of course is terrible because of the chicken-and-egg bootstrapping issue. But I do not understand how this can ever build in the absence of ocaml on the build machine. what am I missing? thanks robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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