On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:03:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:30:01PM +0200, Sven wrote: > > There is no reason not to put the .so in the same place as the rest of the > > libraries, i think, a better approach would be to make sure such .so files > > can > > easily be used, instead of putting all of them under the same subdir, but > > then, maybe this is not how findlib sees it, or is there another reason for > > having started this topic ? > > yes, I raised the topic cause Gerd asked me if we have any plan on where > to put .so files and I thinked is a good thing kepp all .so in a > "special" dir. > > My aim is to keep the user away to know the dir where this files > resides (i.e. avoiding "#whatever dir/file"), this is sure possible > using findlib but I'm not sure if this is possible in the toplevel. > But, from what you say, the module installation may add his directory to > a 'path' that ocaml read when searching shared objects. This is another > solution, that make me happier than the .so special dir solution.
Well, the only problem is that ocaml will _not_ search into the subdirs by default, you have to add it yourself. The +subdir syntax was a greet plus, before you add to give the absolute path to the subdir, which was a real pain. Now you can simply do : ocaml -I +labltk ... and everything will work. Now, in the toplevel case, it is quite easy to use a relative subdir path, and that is what the user wil need to do. Friendly, Sven Luther
