On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:47:07PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > On 06/11/2016 21:38, Ximin Luo wrote: > > Upstream have changed their installation process to look like this: > > > > /build/ocaml-4.04.0# ls -la debian/tmp/usr/bin/ > > total 105424 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 pbuilder pbuilder 4096 Nov 6 20:30 . > > drwxr-xr-x 5 pbuilder pbuilder 4096 Nov 6 20:30 .. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 11800543 Nov 6 20:30 ocaml > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 pbuilder pbuilder 10 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlc -> ocamlc.opt > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 11192039 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlc.byte > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 10065216 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlc.opt > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 pbuilder pbuilder 11 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlcp -> ocamlcp.opt > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 323766 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlcp.byte > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbuilder pbuilder 2017184 Nov 6 20:30 ocamlcp.opt > > [..] > > etc > > > > How shall we proceed? I can't install the symlinks as-is because we would > > then need a circular dependency from ocaml-nox back to > > ocaml-native-compilers. > > > > Maybe now is a good time for Stéphane to step in and do the package merging > > like we were talking about? > > IMHO, the new installation process is cleaner. It's good it has been done > upstream. Notice how it may introduce incompatibilities. Forcing ocamlc to > point to ocamlc.byte everywhere (I guess it's already the case for bytecode > architecture...?) for the sake of keeping ocaml-native-compilers separate > could also introduce other incompatibilities. I am now all in favour of > merging ocaml-native-compilers into ocaml-nox.
yes, agreed. -Ralf.
