On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I've seen many more supported architectures in ocaml CVS (ia64, parisc), > > Don't know about parisc, i don't think it is supported in 3.04, and ia64 > native compiler are broken on ia64 (and since upstream don't have a ia64 > box anymore, i guess they will remain broken).
They may be able to get an account on a Debian ia64, even if they're not developers. One must check on db.debian.org if merulo can be accessed by non-developers. ... > The correct way, as the ocaml debian policy document says if i remember > well, is to depend on ocaml, and have a check for ocamlopt in > debian/rules, and if it is not present, build only the bytecode version. Yes, and something has to be fixed on the ocamlsdl upstream side: ocamlopt should not be mandatory. > That said, many upstream packages are ia32 centric, and don't take into > acount that many arches don't have native compilers. These packages are > considered broken as far as debian is concerned, and it is the job of > the maintainer to fix the build process. > > I don't really believe there is any ocaml stuff that trully 'needs' the > native code compilers to the point of not being able to build and run in > bytecode, they will be slow, but they will work. Alright. Thanks. Regards, -- Jérôme Marant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
