Ralf Treinen: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:57:00AM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: >> >> I fixed this in >> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/ocamlbuild.git/commit/?id=4df02c1e1d6025469c42e653cba30481b1499366 >> >> I had "ocaml-native-compilers | ocaml" as a Build-Dep, but I'll replace this >> with "ocaml-best-compilers" now that I know about it, thanks. > > I still don't understand why you need this. ocaml-native-compilers just > provides the *.opt versions of the compilers, it has nothing to do with > the ability to compile to native code or not. That is, unless ocamlbuild > uses presence of *.opt in a wrong way. >
You're right, I was confused. The current situation is: ocamlbuild's Makefile uses OCAML_NATIVE to install ocamlbuild.native (or .byte if it's false) as /usr/bin/ocamlbuild. This is unrelated to using "*.opt" versions of those compilers which is what Build-Depends would help to control. For this purpose, their Makefile uses OCAML_NATIVE_TOOLS. However I am not exactly following policy atm, I'm installing the byte and native versions as /usr/bin/ocamlbuild and /usr/bin/ocamlbuild.opt respectively. I will fix this. Also I spotted a typo here: https://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/x264.html Near the bottom, "the dependency on ocaml-base-nox-3.10.2 should be added only when the package is built in native mode" - I think this should say "bytecode mode"? X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
