On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:44:12AM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote: > > I also belive that it would be clearer if the directories that contain > > the META file where somwhere else (say /usr/share/findlib or something > > like that) but this may need to modify findlib, and i don't know if this > > is usefull. > > > > > Any comment on those ? Remi, Stefano, Claudio, Gerd ? > > We already asked Gerd for the modfication some monthes ago and he did it. > These are the rules followed by findlib to get the META file for a > library foo: > > * Search in OCAMLPATH a directory that have a subdirectory foo in which > there is a META file. > * Search in OCAMLPATH a file META.foo. In this case, in the META file > there must be the entry "directory" that specifies where the library > is actually installed > > OCAMLPATH can be set as a shell variable; otherwise it reflects > the entry path in /etc/ocamlfind.conf.
Ok, ... So a better solution would be to have (for example) : META.lablgtkgl in /usr/lib/ocaml (OCAMLPATH) BTW, will there be no conflict between the findlib use of OCAMLPATH and other packages (most notably perhaps ocaml) using the same variable for sometihng else ? > So: > > 1) We can put all the META.lablgtk, META.lablglade, META.... > directly in /usr/lib/ocaml Ugly solution ... > 2) We can put them in another directory and add it to the path in > /etc/ocamlfind.conf. In this case, findlib helps again: you > can add a "metadir" entry in /etc/ocamlfind.conf; when you do > findlib install, findlib will automatically install the META file > in the metadir. This would have been the /usr/lib/ocaml/meta dir solution ? Does the actual findlib package does this kind of thing ? i just checked and it doesn't do it like that. What is the format of this exactly ? path="/usr/lib/ocaml:/usr/lib/ocaml/meta" ? > 3) We can add /usr/lib/ocaml/lablgtk to the path in /etc/ocamlfind.conf > and leave META.* into lablgtk. An ugly solution, since we will finish adding a lot of paths everywhere. Maybe going for the 2nd solution would be the best solution, but it will be a post woody thing. Friendly, Sven Luther > > > For more informations on /etc/ocamlfind.con: > > http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/findlib/r1007.html > > > Ciao! > C.S.C. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Real name: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen > PhD Student in Computer Science at University of Bologna > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://caristudenti.cs.unibo.it/~sacerdot > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
