On 2008-09-03 08:49+0100 Andrew Ross 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.
I think a good compromise here is to use "ocamlc -where" results but with the
install prefix substituted for the system prefix. IIRC, this is what we do
in the python case where we also have to deal with versioned and
distribution dependent install directories.
The result would be $prefix/lib/ocaml/3.10.2 on Debian
and $prefix/lib64/ocaml on Fedora so both sets of packagers get the
right result automatically when $prefix is /usr, and users who want/need
a non-root install prefix are allowed to have one.
Alan
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