On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:14:22AM -0400, Alan Dunn wrote: > Something I thought I would address to the Fedora OCaml experts: > > I want to package MLGMPIDL - > http://www.inrialpes.fr/pop-art/people/bjeannet/mlxxxidl-forge/mlgmpidl/index.html > - (it's a dependency for something else I want to package, in case > anyone is interested my path is MLGMPIDL -> APRON -> Frama-C). It Excellent, I need Frama-C too ... > links to C code in a static library and produces OCaml native code and > bytecode libraries. What is the ideal way to package this? The > packaging guidelines state that I should try not to ship a static C > library if possible, but from what I understand (which may well be > wrong, so please correct me if needed) even with the latest OCaml, > bytecode and native code just don't mix, and there's no way to load a > shared C library from native code. Thus it seems that to ship native > and bytecode versions of the library, I need to ship the static > library anyway, so I should just use this for both versions > (separating it out into a -static package too?) Furthermore, even if > there is a way to do something great with OCaml 3.11, this isn't > available for Fedora 9 and 10 (and at least 10 will be around for a > while longer)... I don't think there will be a problem. The prohibition against static linking seems to apply mainly to "proper" libraries, not to small C libraries which are essentially internal/runtime (for example: libgcc.a). > If someone doesn't mind, if there's a definitive guide to exactly what > can and cannot be done with respect to native, bytecode, and external > C library linking and how this varies over OCaml version it would be > much appreciated - the information on this out there is tough for me > to parse, it seems to be in bits and pieces all over the place. Best thing here I think is to make a package & review request and then we can look at the issues (if any) during review. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Fedora-ocaml-list mailing list Fedora-ocaml-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ocaml-list
