On 2013-10-24 09:56-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > Why does plplot use ocamlc -custom to compile? I'm not sure it is > necessary. If I remove it it appears to compile and tests run fine for > me. I ask because of this: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml?rd=Packaging/OCaml#Stripping_binaries > [...]Rationale: http://bugs.debian.org/256900
@Orion: This is a decision that Hez should ultimately make, although I would be happy to help with the implementation with some guidance from him. @Hez: Could you take a look at the interesting message thread given by that last URL, especially the posts by upstream OCaml developers? In sum, it appears to me those developers plan to maintain ocamlc -custom indefinitely because they take backwards incompatibility pretty seriously, but at the same time they want to discourage use of that option because of much better build alternatives for what that option was trying to accomplish. My feeling is we should probably implement that better build alternative if we haven't done that already, and then drop the -custom option, but I don't understand the details (i.e., whether or not we already have implemented the better build alternative) so I will need guidance from you if you want me to make some changes in the OCaml subset of our build system. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
