On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:39:11PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > En réponse à Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Do you think this glibc fix will allow ocaml to be built on sparc > > > with gcc 3.2? I'd like to be able to build cameleon on sparc now. > > > > Don't know, i will test. I am not even sure it is related to that. > ... > > So, if any of you have access to a sparc box running debian/unstable, > > and would be ok with giving Xavier access, then please tell me, if > > not, > > i will try out the new glibc, and if it doesn't solve things, fill a > > bug > > against gcc 3.2, and ask for a machine on debian-sparc. > > Unfortunately, I don't have any. > > > In the meantime, you can always force the usage of gcc 2.95, using the > > -cc option to configure. Anyway, ocaml 3.06-15 is built with gcc 2.95, > > and 3.06-16 is sitting in the new queue. > > Didn't we say that we would get back to build-dependencies on > ocaml >= version?
Nope, i do it like gcc does. I have prepared a ocaml-3.06 source package which builds real ocaml-base-3.06-1, ocaml-3.06-1, ocaml-native-compiles-3.06-1 and ocaml-source-3.06 packages. Once that has been accepted in the archive, and built for every arch (which includes sparc), i will upload a dummy ocaml packages which depends on ocaml-3.06-1 and possibly on ocaml-nativecompiles-3.06-1. This would get us the benefit of what we were previously doing, without the problems associated with virtual packages. We were going to rever to the build-depends on >= versions, for libraries, where this same approach would maybe be too heavy, altough the C libraries do it also with the new policy of including the so name in the package name. Friendly, Sven Luther
