On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:18:36AM -0500, Oleg wrote: > Thanks, Sven and Stefano. > > I'm still curious: was it the intent of the packaging design to require of > the > users to supply "-I /usr/lib/ocaml/pcre" when they use Pcre module in their > own programs?
It is upstream practice. in the libdir should go only the stuff that comes with upstream, other library should go into their separate directory. This even applies to some upstream provided stuff, like labltk for example. That said, there is a nicer way of doing this, you can provide simply : "-I +pcre", which will prepend the libdir path tp pcre and will work even if we move the libdir (like we did for ocaml 3.06 in unstable). Another justification is for name space separation. Imagine pcre and another lib both provide a module with the same name. If all where to be installed into the libdir, it would cause problems. Another step in that direction is to recompile everything using the -pack option, which would enable you to have a pcre.A module, instead of a module A in the pcre lib, but this practice has not yet been widely propagated, maybe by the 3.07 or 3.08 timeframe. Friendly, Sven Luther
