[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/3] hivex: check for presence of OCaml native compiler

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:04:19AM +0200, bengen at hilluzination.de wrote:
> From: Hilko Bengen <bengen at hilluzination.de>
> 
> Only compile bytecode otherwise, avoiding ocamlfind's helpful error
> message "ocamlfind: Not supported in your configuration: ocamlopt"
> 
> (Successfully tested on Debian/unstable on alpha)

The problem with this patch is that OCaml users won't get the native
version.  This is vital on platforms that do have the native compiler.

The fix here must be to detect if the native version is available and
compile it conditionally.  ocaml-autoconf macros are already doing the
detection, see:

https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ocaml-autoconf/ocaml-autoconf.git;a=blob;f=ocaml.m4.pod;h=25734584264c96e65bbc38fdce833939d0891f1b;hb=HEAD#l41

Rich.

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