On 30-12-2008, Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]> wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> Proposal ahead. What if we provide a symbolic link as follows: >> >> `ocamlc -where`/site-lib -> `ocamlc -where` >> >> ? > > I am not so fond of this. IMHO, Makefiles should be made in such a way > that changing the location of an installed library is easy (for example, > by using Makefile variables), and we should not resort to such a hack to > (try to) be compatible with as much Makefiles as possible. After all, > one could have installed the library in e.g. /usr/local, or even a > different, non-standard, location (e.g. because the user compiling > cannot perform system-wide installations)...
Full ACK with Stephane. The link is just a compatibility hack, writing it into policy is another hack. I do think that there is way to determine everything using a simple ocamlfind invocation, that can go deeper using Findlib call. Honestly, findlib is well enough made to provide a good solution to most problem. Regards Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
