On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > k) In test/, some ocaml code is compiled (e.g., taquin). Is this > > > plattform independent, e.g., can this be shipped in an all package? > > > If not, than this would defect one of the purposes of the > > > package split (disk space saved on the mirrors). Right now I > > > assume that it is indeed portable. > > > > If it is bytecode then yet, try running file on them, and see what it says. > > Well, it is a shell script: > taquin: a /usr/bin/ocamlrun script text executable
Not exactly a shell script, but a ocamlrun script, which means that it is pure bytecode, and can thus be made arch: all. > The second line starts some binary data, which kills my terminal if > cat'ed. (reset cures that) > > According to the man page, > ocamlrun - The Objective Caml bytecode interpreter > > is this bytecode the same as with java, i.e., is it portable? Well, Sure, but some bytecode can be linked with external libs, using the -custom flag, and will be arch: any then. This is the case of the main advi binary, since there was not really much sense to split out the smallish C binding, and build a true bytecode advi executable, since we still would have to split the library. It could be done though. > I'll most likly try it out later in a testing/unstable alpha or i386 > chroot. Ok, but it should just work. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
