[Mageia-dev] [Bug 5199] Several error with ocaml bytecode compilation in ocaml-xen module

Sun Mar 10 21:00:03 CET 2013

2013/3/10, AL13N <alien at rmail.be>:
+>> If you don't know just don't delete anything, just provide what the
+>> install script did installed.
+>> Anyway if there is something installed (by error) it won't have bad
+>> effects on the real parts of the lib.
+>
+> in any case, i'm asking because we do have a policy of remove all static
+> libs (.a) and .la files. i just wasn't sure the .a files were static libs in this
+> case, or just something completely unrelated.
+
+yes these are static libs (but only a part of the lib)
+ocaml only links statically, so all ocaml libs are statically linked,
+at least in native compilation (because ocaml can also compile to bytecode)
+
+> but since the others have .so, i think they are static libs.
+
+the .so file are another part of the libs (bindings to C libraries)
+
+> also, usually there are versioned .so files and the .so files themselves
+> need to be in -devel; i guess it's not so for ocaml packages...
+
+The main split provide everything to run in bytecode.
+bytecode can be either:
+- compile to bytecode (as Java does)
+- run in interpreted way (similar to Perl or PHP)
+
+The -devel split provide everything to compile in native mode
+(make binaries like in C)
+
+This split policy is not specific to Mageia, other distros split like
+this, we just do the same.
+
+
+> did i accidentally reply to a br mail? i thought i put this in the
+> bugreport, but i guess i'm not sure?
+
+I don't know, I've only pushed the button "answer".
+
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+