Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 236497
Ocaml links libraries staticly
Last modified: 2008-02-21 09:05:49 EST
Hi, In the packaging of ocamlSDL, camlimages and freetennis (#235804, #235805 & #235815), I discovered issues with how Ocaml links libraries, and Fedora policies. I've refered this to the fedora-packaging mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00100.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00164.html I just thought I'd place a bug here about it (if you agree, it might be an idea to make my package reviews dependant on this bug). Policy info regarding static libraries: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-2302ec1e1f44202c9cc4bcce24cb711266557ad7
What libraries are affected exactly? Unison, for example, is dynamically linked against the gtk libraries.
Even Unison doesn't link properly to lablgtk, same with freetennis (Bug #235815), it depends on what labl depends on true, but a true dynamic linked application SHOULD depend upon the libraries it was built with (seems to be fairly typical of most ocaml based packages in Fedora that I can find. For reference: 'ldd /usr/bin/unison | grep labl' returns nothing
So you mean *ocaml* libraries. AFAIK, those can't be shared. It is the problem of ocaml, no ours, I would say.
I think this bug should be closed, since the issue has had extensive discussion and is covered in the packaging guidelines for OCaml: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/OCaml Anyone therefore mind if I close it?