From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "'Marco Maggi'" <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>, <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] [newbie] miscellaneous on installation and web site
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:13:30 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001b01cab941$00c6c5c0$02545140$@romulus.metastack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hpw9om6.fsf@rapitore.luna>
Marco Maggi wrote:
> Ciao,
>
> I am a True Beginner taking a look at O'Caml; I hope not to be
> abusing by posting here rather than the beginners list.
Building OCaml from source is definitely not a beginners' question! :o)
> I think I successfully compiled ocaml-3.11.2 on my
> i686-pc-linux-gnu, but there seems to be no way to install the package
> in a temporary location via the Linux de facto standard DESTDIR
> environment variable; is there a way to do it? (I am used to build
> custom packages.)
I've not come across that way before (by which I mean "you learn a new thing
every day"!), the more usual way, which will work with OCaml, is to specify
a different root for the -prefix option when you run configure. make install
will then install OCaml there. I used to use that when compiling uses OCaml
on a machine for which I didn't have root and I used it just the other day
to compile OCaml 3.12.0 on Maemo so the switch definitely works.
All that said, what distro are you using? Debian and Fedora (and *BSD) all
have native packages for OCaml.
> The web site[1] is beautiful (no irony) but a lot of
> informations look outdated, 4/5 years old; I see many O'Caml related
> sites on the Net. Is there one that I can take as reference for the
> latest news, for example about still maintained library packages?
The Caml Hump I believe has up-to-date information as long as it's
submitted. I'm quite lazy and tend only to look for updates to libraries I
use when either I hit a bug or am installing on a new machine ...
www.ocamlcore.org is a pretty good place to start, I think.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 13:07 Marco Maggi
2010-03-01 13:12 ` [Caml-list] " Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-03-01 13:13 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2010-03-01 19:32 ` Marco Maggi
2010-03-01 19:37 ` Marco Maggi
2010-03-01 21:31 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-01 13:28 ` [Caml-list] " Mark Shinwell
2010-03-01 13:36 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-01 14:44 ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2010-03-02 6:04 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-03-02 14:02 ` Ashish Agarwal
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