[Caml-list] Linking the num library with and without ocamlfind

[Caml-list] Linking the num library with and without ocamlfind

[Christian Lindig]

The “num" arbitrary precision library is part of the OCaml distribution and is linked as nums.cm(x)a. - note the trailing “s”. I noticed that the corresponding package for ocamlfind is called “num” - without the trailing “s”, and that the documentation also refers to the library as “num” but not “nums”. Is there a reason for this? I tripped over it when switching to/from ocamlfind.

	http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libnum.html

— Christian 

Re: [Caml-list] Linking the num library with and without ocamlfind

[Gerd Stolpmann]

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Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2015, 18:23 +0200 schrieb Christian Lindig:
> The “num" arbitrary precision library is part of the OCaml distribution and is linked as nums.cm(x)a. - note the trailing “s”. I noticed that the corresponding package for ocamlfind is called “num” - without the trailing “s”, and that the documentation also refers to the library as “num” but not “nums”. Is there a reason for this? I tripped over it when switching to/from ocamlfind.

In the source tree it is in otherlibs/num. The README file there calls
it libnum. It was me who called it num in findlib, but I do not remember
exactly why (years ago). Maybe I just picked one of the several names
without thinking too much about it.

Gerd


> 	http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libnum.html
> 
> — Christian 
> 

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