On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:07:24AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The proposal is to switch from having `ocamlc -where` = > /usr/lib/ocaml/<ABI>/ to plain /usr/lib/ocaml/.
I'll put my two cent(ime)s in here: Fedora uses $libdir/ocaml (ie. no versioned directory) for the same reason you mention. So we can only support installing one version of OCaml at a time. _However_ when it comes to installing the cross-compiler, we use a separate library directory and separate binaries: $libdir/$target-ocaml # The OCaml library, cross-compiled $bindir/$target-ocamlopt # The cross-compiler where $target is something like "i686-pc-mingw32", but we expect to have other cross-compilers in future. Note that if you use AC_CHECK_TOOL([ocamlopt]) in autoconf, and you are cross-compiling, then autoconf automatically picks /usr/bin/$target-ocamlopt over /usr/bin/ocamlopt. Now the way we chose to select between ordinary compilation and cross-compilation is elegant and works even without autoconf. We have two ocamlfind.conf files: /etc/ocamlfind.conf # Selects ordinary compilation /etc/i686-pc-mingw32-ocamlfind.conf # Selects cross-compilation and to switch between the two, just set OCAMLFIND_CONF environment variable to point to the correct configuration file (actually, to select ordinary compilation, you just leave this undefined). Ordinary ocamlfind commands just work, but pick the correct compiler: ocamlfind ocamlopt -package ...... Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ocaml-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org