Description of problem: Programs that use ocaml-sqlite-devel cannot be compiled to native code with ocamlfind unless sqlite-devel is installed. However, ocaml-sqlite-devel does not list sqlite-devel as a dependency. It probably should. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.6-3.fc13 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure neither ocaml-sqlite-devel nor sqlite-devel is installed. 2. Install ocaml-sqlite-devel. 3. Create an empty file called "empty.ml". 4. Execute "ocamlfind ocamlopt -package sqlite3 -linkpkg empty.ml". Actual results: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite3 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status File "caml_startup", line 1, characters 0-1: Error: Error during linking Expected results: Successful creation of a.out
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I just checked, and this bug is still present in F15. Also, the ocaml-sqlite-devel package does not depend on either 'ocaml' or 'ocaml-findlib'; should it depend on these packages so that it can actually do something, or is it assumed that the user has OCaml installed?
(In reply to comment #3) > I just checked, and this bug is still present in F15. > > Also, the ocaml-sqlite-devel package does not depend on either 'ocaml' or > 'ocaml-findlib'; should it depend on these packages so that it can actually do > something, or is it assumed that the user has OCaml installed? It should get the dependencies it needs automatically. RPM itself knows about OCaml and (should) all deps like ocaml(ModuleName) = MD5SUM, ocaml(runtime) = VERSION. For the current ocaml-sqlite package from Fedora 15, everything looks OK to me: $ rpm -qR ocaml-sqlite rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 ocaml(Array) = 720848e0b508273805ef38d884a57618 ocaml(Buffer) = 40bf652f22a33a7cfa05ee1dd5e0d7e4 ocaml(Callback) = e28543018d3991d2a7e9e4233bc16727 ocaml(Int32) = c91c0bbb9f7670b10cdc0f2dcc57c5f9 ocaml(Int64) = 8f09e1331fe8af2d7b954585551cbe4f ocaml(Obj) = 3aeb33d11433c95bb62053c65665eb76 ocaml(Pervasives) = db723a1798b122e08919a2bfed062514 ocaml(Printf) = 55250c391e05a095d3696890d0d554a2 ocaml(String) = 06ab5e6944c47322b9d305c0aa0b07ff ocaml(runtime) = 3.12.0 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
The reported bug is a bit different though. ocaml-sqlite-devel needs a dependency on sqlite-devel (for some reason, not quite sure why).
With respect to the OCaml dependencies, it mostly surprised me that the ocaml-sqlite-devel package does not Require: the OCaml compiler (which seems to be ocaml(compiler)), as it seems useless without it. I found this while trying to verify the continued presence of this bug in a mock chroot.
(In reply to comment #5) > The reported bug is a bit different though. ocaml-sqlite-devel > needs a dependency on sqlite-devel (for some reason, not quite > sure why). Linking against sqlite3.cmxa means linking against -lsqlite3. I don't know about Fedora, but in Debian, the .so files (actually, links, without the version appended) are provided by -dev packages. The -dev package is also probably needed to link a custom bytecode executable.
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