Re: advice need on how to avoid -custom

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Eric Cooper wrote:
> 2. Figure out "by hand" which OCaml libraries need to be installed for
> their runtime DLLs, and use conditional Makefile hackery to add them
> to the Depends on bytecode-only archs.  This is "optimal" but very
> error-prone.

You can conditionally do something like this:

  echo 'F:OCamlBytecodeDeps="libpcre-ocaml"' >> debian/substvars

in the build target of your debian/rules, and use ${F:OCamlBytecodeDeps}
in the Depends field of your debian/control.

> 3. Find or write an automated tool to accomplish (2).

This is something dh_ocaml might do...


Cheers,

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Stéphane