On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:58:01AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2008-09-03 08:49+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > >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, Sounds like a good potential compromise. This is easy on UNIX where there is a default /usr prefix. How will this work on other platforms where we don't necessarily know what the prefix is, or even for cases where ocaml is installed in a non-standard location? The python sysconfig.get_python_lib function allows you to specify a prefix and it will return a full library path. This makes life much simpler. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
