On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:52:55AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:58:52PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Looks like OCAML_INSTALL_DIR should be set to the output of "ocaml
> >> -where". This will allow for the differences in Debian and Fedora (and
> >> other) install locations.
> >>
> >> Debian guidelines:
> >>
> >> 1.3.2. OCaml Location
> >>
> >> The root of all installed OCaml libraries is the OCaml standard
> >> library directory, which is /usr/lib/ocaml/VERSION/, at the
> >> time of writing /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2. This location can be
> >> obtained from the OCaml compiler by invoking it as ocamlc
> >> -where.
> >>
> >>
> >> Fedora:
> >>
> >> %{_libdir}/ocaml/foolib
> >>
> >> On x86_64:
> >> mock-chroot> ocamlc -where
> >> /usr/lib64/ocaml
> >
> > Orion,
> >
> > I discussed this with Hez when implementing the cmake support for ocaml.
> > In my opinion a defaul build should have everything as a subdirectory of
> > the install tree prefix (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX). What if you are
> > installing on a system without root access? What if you are testing
> > different versions? This is what we do for all other languages.
> >
> > For packaging you are right - using "ocaml -where" is the correct thing
> > to do, but this is an issue for the packager.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> Well, I'm the packager, so it's an issue for me :-). Currently there is
> no way to override OCAML_INSTALL_DIR. I'm happy to pass in
> -DOCAML_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=`ocamlc -where` to cmake if that's what you guys
> decide, but I need to be able to set it.
Orion,
You can already set OCAML_INSTALL_DIR on the cmake command line as you
describe. It might not be documented, but it does work. At least it did
work with cmake2.4 when I tested it.
Andrew
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