On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:27:17AM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 20:19 +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > Now I have the problem that I've got to keep on supporting the > > -lcamlrun_shared way as well as the real fix from INRIA, and that's > > particularly a problem for RHEL where we guarantee ABI (yes, _binary_) > > stability for 7 years, but also a problem to a lesser extent in > > Fedora. > > But hang on: Ocaml has a binary lifetime of about 3 months max. > So I don't see the problem. Ocaml ABI isn't stable, the only > way to fix it is to fix the version of Ocaml, and if you do > that fixing a particular ocamlrun shared lib is ok too.
Yes and that's an "interesting" but slightly separate issue. Since binaries are statically linked to OCaml / glue code but dynamically linked to C libraries it turns out to be not as much of a problem. (See virt-top where I've shipped a binary of this OCaml program which runs on many different platforms -- eg. Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu). But if RHEL customers start to ship OCaml libraries then we may be in for a bit more, erm, fun. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat http://annexia.org/ http://annexia.org/forth - FORTH tutorial -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
