> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:58:52PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Looks like OCAML_INSTALL_DIR should be set to the output of "ocaml
>> -where". This will allow for the differences in Debian and Fedora (and
>> other) install locations.
>>
>> Debian guidelines:
>>
>> 1.3.2. OCaml Location
>>
>> The root of all installed OCaml libraries is the OCaml standard
>> library directory, which is /usr/lib/ocaml/VERSION/, at the
>> time of writing /usr/lib/ocaml/3.10.2. This location can be
>> obtained from the OCaml compiler by invoking it as ocamlc
>> -where.
>>
>>
>> Fedora:
>>
>> %{_libdir}/ocaml/foolib
>>
>> On x86_64:
>> mock-chroot> ocamlc -where
>> /usr/lib64/ocaml
>
> Orion,
>
> I discussed this with Hez when implementing the cmake support for ocaml.
> In my opinion a defaul build should have everything as a subdirectory of
> the install tree prefix (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX). What if you are
> installing on a system without root access? What if you are testing
> different versions? This is what we do for all other languages.
>
> For packaging you are right - using "ocaml -where" is the correct thing
> to do, but this is an issue for the packager.
>
> Andrew
Well, I'm the packager, so it's an issue for me :-). Currently there is
no way to override OCAML_INSTALL_DIR. I'm happy to pass in
-DOCAML_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=`ocamlc -where` to cmake if that's what you guys
decide, but I need to be able to set it.
- Orion
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