On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:27:59AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > >> This was for the libc migration. > >> > >> AFAICT OCaml situation is very different: > >> * library location is not well established > > > > Yes and no. We standardized the dll.so location in the stublibs > > directory, and most of the time this is enough. Users or rogue packages > > can still install stuff all over the place. > > > > But i have the feeling that that the rpath is not really there to find > > the stublibs, which are found by the ocaml ld.conf file, but to find the > > C libraries these stublibs wrap, and this is why directories like > > /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib are used. And especially you are not > > supposed to link a stublib from another. > > This in not completely true. One could want to write a binding for a > gtk widget not in lablgtk, without having to modify lablgtk, while > using some of the lablgtk function. Then it could be useful to link > the new stublib to the lablgtk one.
I would be glad to accept any such patch to lablgtk, and i guess so will upstream. In fact that is the way we did it when adding SVG support to lablgtk2. Friendly, Sven Luther
