From: "David Allsopp" <David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: opam package should depend on ocaml-compiler-libs
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 10:28:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000501d634d2$5ebc65f0$1c3531d0$@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
opam assumes that OCaml installed by the "OS" package manager is "complete"
(i.e. is the same as "make install" from the OCaml sources), which is a
problem when "OS" package managers split upstream ocaml and don't install
the ocaml-compiler-libs package by default.
Please could either the opam or ocaml package be updated to depend on
ocaml-compiler-libs. Fixes
https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/issues/16457.
Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora both also have ocaml-compiler-libs packages, but
it's installed by their ocaml package as well.
Arch chooses not to do this, having packages like ocaml-findlib expressly
depending on ocaml-compilerlibs and so also has its opam package depend on
ocaml-compilerlibs.
As both an upstream OCaml and opam maintainer, I don't mind which package
has the dependency, but if opam is installed, please can any
system-installed ocaml definitely be "complete"!
Many thanks,
David
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-28 9:28 David Allsopp [this message]
2020-06-04 14:38 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-08 9:14 ` David Allsopp
2020-06-08 18:58 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-09 6:55 ` ASSI
2020-06-17 13:47 ` David Allsopp
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