[Fedora-packaging] Issues with Ocaml and Static Linking

Nigel Jones dev at nigelj.com
Sun Apr 15 11:53:07 UTC 2007


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Nigel Jones wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> While putting in a couple of packages for Extras Review I've stumbled
> into a couple of issues regarding how Ocaml links libraries and how the
> Fedora Packaging Guidelines are set.
> 
> My packages in question are:
> ocamlSDL (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235804)
> camlimages (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235805)
> freetennis (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235815)
> 
> Basically, ocamlSDL and camlimages produce two sets of libraries (a set
> of dynamic libraries, and another set for development etc), sadly when
> other packages like freetennis build, they staticly link to libraries
> such as camlimages/ocamlSDL.
> 
> I found it semi-suspect when I built freetennis, and hence why I asked
> on bugzilla when I posted the three packages for review, however I did
> some more questioning today and after a quick IRC discussion in #ocaml
> was told:
> 
> 12/04 13:39 < G> hmmm, .a .cma and .cmxa are all static ocaml libraries
> right?
> 12/04 13:44 < Smerdyakov> Those are the two library extensions, yes.
> 12/04 13:44 < Smerdyakov> Native code OCaml doesn't support dynamic loading.
> 12/04 13:44 < Smerdyakov> I expect that bytecode uses the same files for
>                           dynamic loading as static loading.
> 
> Looking at my installed files on my laptop, lablgl, lablgtk and labltk
> (as well as the main ocaml package) store .a, .cma and .cmxa files in
> /usr/lib/ocaml (and subfolders).
> 
> As I'm only new to Fedora packaging, could someone please advise on
> where I should from here on the matter and what the position of FESCO is
> on Ocaml static libraries, and where I should go from here.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nigel Jones

I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this issue.

I've talked to some more people in #ocaml (Freenode), who suggested that
 I try a patch by the name of 'scaml' which is a year or two old (and
although can be manually applied to the ocaml source, it does not work
(problems with assembly which I've not comfortable meddling with).

We'd actually need to downgrade to 3.07 which was removed from Fedora in
 Feb 05 to get the patch working to satisfy the need for dynamic loading
which I'm sure would upset a few people.

Upstream already have a bug opened stating that they need to fix the
issue but they have never updated it, or assigned it to anyone.

So my main question is "where to from here?"

Thanks,

Nigel Jones

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