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Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies


On 28/12/2009 03:47, Andrew Schulman wrote:
ocaml is unmaintained ATM.  I took a shot at packaging it and it's a significant
PITA.  The Makefile doesn't support DESTDIR, and the location of the main ocaml
executable, wherever you installed it for packaging purposes, gets statically
baked into all bytecode executables.

Indeed, I didn't look at maintainership before I sent that email.


You are correct that OCaml doesn't build OOTB. I have a working build, but there is an issue with the method they use to create stublibs and .cmxs native link modules. I'll try to raise an RFC on those issues when I have a chance.


Yaakov



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