On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:17:19PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:03:15AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > But can libdbi-ocaml be changed so that it doesn't depend on the > > > database libraries directly (but 'suggests' them)? It ought to still > > > work, surely, unless you actually tried to use dbi_xxx in which case > > > it should correctly give an error. > > > > That's already how it works. I think you may be confusing libdbi-ocaml > > with libdbi-ocaml-dev. > > Ah yes, probably. Unfortunately on my webserver I need both of these > packages, because we compile all our CGI scripts on the server rather > than distributing binaries. Why does the -dev package require these > extra packages?
In order to link most programs that use OcamlDBI, you have to have the libraries around, since our OcamlDBI package is compiled with support for them. I think the proper resolution to this is to find out which db library is pulling in the crap and make it stop. -- John
