On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 06:41:54PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:53:00PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > I was just thinking to explicitely call ocaml-ldconf -R ... until > > > woody+1, but if you change your mind and agree with a centralized > > > solution .... :-) > > > > But we can do the -r <version_number> thingy, it only needs (i guess) a > > little change to the dh_ocamlld stuff (well, i am no perl guy, so ...) > > it would just mean analyzing the @ARGV to see if the first of them is > > "-r version" or something such. Perl is supposed to be able to do this > > easily, is it not ? > > Sure, but is better to use a getopt approach, anyway ... the problem is > not in Perl use by itself is that debhelper script are yes written in > Perl, but heavily based on the Debian::Debhelper module that do a lot of > jobs, including argument parsing. > > To access command line arguments you have not to work directly with perl > functions that handle them, but you have to know the debhelper perl > module and use hooks provided by it. > > I know perl, but I know nothing of the perl debhelper interface, but > surely who have written dh_ocamlld can apply the changes you are > thinking at with really few efforts (assuming that: (1) he knows the > debhelper perl module, which sounds reasonable and (2) debhelper perl > module supports them, which again sounds reasonable).
Mmm, i would like the opinion of Denis on this, but he said that the option stuff was not worth the effort. Anyway, the new idea i had is just based on the testing for an empty dirlist, it should be done easily, should it not ? Friendly, Sven Luther
