On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:11:09PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > FWIW, the RC bugs on numerix have to do with platforms on which it doesn't > build. I'm not sure why they're considered RC; my understanding was that > FTBFS is only RC if it formerly built on that platform. > > I've long since dealt with reworking the Makefiles to handle the case where > the ocaml byte compiler doesn't exist. But in the interim, ocaml-nums and/or > the handling of library search paths in ocamlmklib seems to have regressed, > and my build is failing: > > ocamlmklib -o numerix -oc mlnumx lib/ocaml/numerix.cmo lib/ocaml/numcount.cmo > lib/ocaml/numcmp.cmo lib/common/chrono.o lib/common/ml-long_int-c.o > lib/common/ml-long_int-d.o lib/common/ml-gmp_int.o .libobj/*.o -lgmp -lnums > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnums
Do you have ocaml-nums installed ? Can you check your changes in subversion, so i can have a look tomorrow ? > I'm making a more serious effort at debugging this as we speak, starting with > getting caught up on several weeks' worth of evolution of sid. Sorry I've > been kind of out of touch; the new day job (I'm seven weeks in) has really > eaten me for lunch. As of today I have finally wrapped a lasso around the > responsibilities of the position; it's an alarmingly long list. Happily, a > large fraction of it has to do with contributing to Debian, beginning with > getting the SKS keyserver and its dependencies (e. g., numerix) stabilized. > Watch this space. Cool, Friendly, Sven Luther
