Bug 164443 – Ocaml Expat bindings (new ebuild)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Oscar Hellström 2007-01-29 19:20:44 UTC]

Expat bindings for Objective Caml

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Oscar Hellström 2007-01-29 19:22:24 UTC]

Created attachment 108509 [details]
Ebuild for ocaml-expat

Don't know how to do with use flags. There is a choice to build byte-code or native code or both. Right now there is only a use-flag for adding the native code.

Is there a policy for OCaml programs?

[Comment 2 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) 2007-01-29 19:44:06 UTC]

Yes, we just assume that everyone has ocamlopt, so we always build with native code.

Two minor remarks:
- "( use foo ) && bar" is deprecated, one should use "if use foo ; then bar fi" instead
- we don't install LICENSE, since it's already in /usr/portage/license

Also, the tradition is to put the '{' on the same line than the function name.


Do you have an example of a program which uses this library, so I can give it a quick test?

[Comment 3 Oscar Hellström 2007-01-29 20:04:19 UTC]

Not sure about any program that uses it, developing that atm, but with a few more deps.

http://www.cduce.org/ seems to use it, but has quite a few dependencies. I could create a tarball with a small OCaml program that links to ocaml-expat.

[Comment 4 Oscar Hellström 2007-01-29 20:08:20 UTC]

Created attachment 108518 [details]
Updated ebuild

Updated the ebuild based on comments

[Comment 5 Oscar Hellström 2007-01-29 20:41:18 UTC]

Created attachment 108524 [details]
expat_example_tar.bz2

Very small example of using OCaml Expat bindings...

[Comment 6 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) 2007-02-06 21:28:21 UTC]

And this one found its way into the tree as well.

Thanks.