Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:41:24PM -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> That's another possibility. But I've never seen a working parallel
>> OCaml compiler install. It's definitely not as easy as it is with gcc
>> to do parallel / compat installs ... A question for upstream, I
>> think.
>>
[...]
So I asked upstream and the situation is quite complicated. Basically
there are two possible ways to do this:
(1) We could have a separate subdirectory, like this:
/usr/bin/* for the default compiler
/usr/libexec/ocaml-3.10.2/* for the non-default compiler
Users would need to set the $PATH before compiling. This solution
looks like it will suck a lot.
(2) We could rename the compiler binaries, like:
/usr/bin/ocamlc
/usr/bin/ocamlopt
(etc. -- there are about 20 binaries that need renaming)
/usr/bin/ocamlc-3.10.2
/usr/bin/ocamlopt-3.10.2
(etc.)
Users would need to modify their build scripts to pick the correct
compiler. This solution also sucks, and is even more error-prone
than (1).
How about installing a package with /usr/bin/ocamlc -3.09.3,
/usr/bin/ocamlopt-3.09.3 , etc, another one with /usr/bin/ocamlc-3.10.2,
/usr/bin/ocamlopt-3.10.2, etc. and usin alternatives to switch among
the two by doing
ln -s /usr/bin/ocamlc -3.09.3 /usr/bin/ocamlc (and so on) or
ln -s /usr/bin/ocamlc-3.10.2 /usr/bin/ocamlc
?
> I know we have at least 1 app ( maybe more) that would work a lot
> better with the newer version, (like it would build). I'll vote for
> the update.
>
Out of interest, what is the app?
Rich.
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A: Yes.
Q: Are you sure?
>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?