On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 02:34:45AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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). > > The problem with rpath, as far as I gathered from various falmes, is > that you depend on the library your build with. Slight changes of the > libraries make the binary unusable, like moving the library or version > changes. Without rpath it still find the library.
Yes, do you want to argue with upstream ? > > > 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. > > When I do "make byte" I still get an elf binary. Is there a way to > make a binary-all ocaml program? Since its bytecode it seems like a > big waste to have the same bytecode for every arch. Remove the -custom option. Friendly, Sven Luther
