On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 10:09:50AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I'm packaging mldonkey and on debian-mentors it was suggested to join > this ML. So here I am. > > And of cause I have questions: > > 1. lintian complains about rpath being set. How do I tell ocamlopt to > not use rpath?
You do not, you could use an lintian override to avoid the waring though. Upstream choose to use rpath, and when i asked on d-m, a huge flameware about the usage of rpath followed, which didn't give me a conclusive answer in any direction. Upstream mostly ignored my question (well they responded, but they like rpath). > 2. mldonkey uses ocamlopt.opt but ocamlopt works as well. Which of the > two should I use? Should I build-depend on eigther or conflict with > one? You should build depend on ocaml-best-compilers, and do a test for the presence of ocamlopt.opt before using it. Make sure you have a fallback to use bytecode (ocamlc) if ocamlopt is not present, or you will get _plenty_ of bug report, as your package will _not_ build on m68k, hppa, mips, mipsel and maybe some other i am missing. > 3. Are there any archs that don't have a ocamlopt? At the moment I > don't build bytecompiled versions of mldonkey but that would be easy > to change. See above. Maybe i will furnish a list or such in the ocaml packaging policy. The correct way of solveing this, is doing an explicit test for it. > 4. Anything else that I should be aware of? Not out of my head. Friendly, Sven Luther
