Re: ocaml bindings

[AL13N <alien@rmail.be>]

Op woensdag 3 april 2013 18:12:21 schreef Andrew Cooper:
> On 03/04/13 18:03, AL13N wrote:
> > i'm the Mageia Xen package maintainer, and a user reported that i had
> > missing symbols in my ocaml bindings:
> > 
> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5199
> > 
> > i'm using Xen 4.2.1 and ocaml 3.12.1
> > 
> > the problem is that if you just to a simple hello world and you're using
> > certain bindings (eg: xeneventch): you get missing symbols. (others appear
> > to be fine).
> > 
> > I know next to nothing about ocaml, and it could be my build process, but
> > i
> > kinda need some help about this.
> > 
> > this is my spec file:
> > http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/xen/current
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > PS: we're at version freeze and release freeze is pretty soon :-S
> 
> This is because the ocaml tools embed the build target links in the
> generated libs.  If you try to link against them later outside the build
> environment, it will break.
> 
> Attached is the patch used to fix this problem for XenServer for Xen 4.2.


thanks alot for the very quick help, i'm testing right now...