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[luther@debian.org: Re: "weird" naming convention for ocamlbuild executables]



----- Forwarded message from Sven Luther <luther@debian.org> -----

Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:02:40 +0200
From: Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>,
	debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: "weird" naming convention for ocamlbuild executables

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:35:35AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:08 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 
> >  So if someone step forward and
> > is willing to implement the alternative mechanism which can make
> > ocamlopt (and friends) point to either ocamlopt.byte or ocamlopt.native
> > then please go ahead.  I have no objection in shipping that stuff as
> > Debian's ocaml 3.10.0.
> 
> You can't do that, it will break things. In Felix at the moment,
> ocamlopt.opt crashes handling dypgen, or, dygen crashes.
> ocamlopt crashes with a Stack overflow message sometimes.
> 
> It's quite possible ocamlopt.opt will fail where ocamlopt
> will actually work.

So ? You simply make a call to ocamlopt.byte instead of ocamlopt then,
no ? 

Should be a single line change if your build system is well done.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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