[Pkg-xen-devel] [patch] Packages ocaml libraries

[Thomas Goirand]

On 09/09/2011 12:13 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Mike, Jonathan, can we have your useful comment on this? Namely:
> - Is your uuidm a fork of libuuidm-ocaml-dev? Can you make it so we use
> that one instead of what's in Xen 4.1.1?
> - Can we use @OCamlStdlibDir@/xen/libname for all the files that aren't
> .so? Will it be an issue later?
> 
> We really need your feedback here. Also, I tried once more to build
> xen-api-libs in SID, and it failed to build, even with the
> xen-api-libs-debian patches from Jonathan. Can you look into that so we
> can move forward with this packaging as well?
> 
> Thomas

Hi,

I had a reply from Jon about 10 days ago, where he tells he is ok with
using a "xen" folder for the ocaml libs, but had no time to rewrite the
patch corresponding to it. Here it is, attached to this message, moving
all non-.so files into @OCamlStdlibDir@/xen/${folder}. The reply of
Jonathan is below. Please accept this patch into Xen: it has been a
painful and long enough process already, and it's time to move forward.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand

Here's Jon's reply:

On 09/19/2011 05:22 AM, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
> Apologies, I've been a little busy with XCP 1.1 stuff and a
> new release of XenServer.
>
> The uuid library is a home-grown thing, not a fork of uuidm.
>
> In the longer term, I think we should:
> 1. rename the packages xc->xenctrl, xs->xenstore, xb->xenbus,
> xl->xenlight, etc.
> 2. Remove the uuid library. Patches have already been sent to
> xen-devel to do this
>
> In the short term, I'm quite happy with packaging things under the
> 'xen' dir - I've not done this with ocamlfind before, but I'm sure we
> can come up with some appropriate patches.
>
> I'm surprised you can't get xen-api-libs to build - it's working fine
> for me. I've got an up-to-date debian packaging folder on
> github.com/jonludlam/xen-api-libs-debian.git
>
> Jon
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