Package: lintian Version: 1.23.0 Severity: normal Hello,
The OCaml complier ocamlc can sometimes generate ELF executables (when used with -custom or a library that uses -custom). Here is an example: /tmp$ echo 'print_endline "Hello world"' > test.ml /tmp$ ocamlc -custom -o test test.ml /tmp$ ./test Hello world /tmp$ ls -l test -rwxr-xr-x 1 jgoerzen jgoerzen 157744 Jun 4 13:29 test /tmp$ strip test /tmp$ ls -l test -rwxr-xr-x 1 jgoerzen jgoerzen 113804 Jun 4 13:29 test /tmp$ ./test No bytecode file specified. Any file left unstripped in this manner causes a Lintian error. Even strip --strip-debug will generate the error. You can tell you have an OCaml program if you get a result from: objdump -t executable | grep caml_main -- John -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.34-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.07-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii man-db 2.4.2-16 The on-line manual pager ii perl 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information
