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Detail: [#718] --prefix & --destdir aren't honoured by *all* things that are installed

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[#718] --prefix & --destdir aren't honoured by *all* things that are installed

Date: 2010-08-21 23:20	Priority: 3
State: Open
Submitted by: Magnus Therning (magthe)	Assigned to: Sylvain Le Gall (gildor-admin)
Product: None	Due in version: 0.4.9
Resolution: Accepted As Bug	Severity: None
Version: None	Component: None
Operating System: None
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Summary: --prefix & --destdir aren't honoured by *all* things that are installed
Detailed description During my attempts of packaging OASIS and its dependencies for ArchLinux I basically performed the following steps: % ocaml ./setup.ml -configure --prefix /usr --destdir pkg_taging_dir % ocaml ./setup.ml -build % ocaml ./setup.ml -install Just to find that the destination dir I passed in at the configuration step wasn't honoured when the package included an ocaml library/module. In that case OASIS attempted to install the files in /usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/<pkg name>. The expectation was that *exactly* the steps above would be all that's needed to stage a package using OASIS.

Followup Message Date: 2016-06-19 14:24 Sender: Sylvain Le Gall Related: [#1125] setup.ml -configure --prefix is sometimes ignored https://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1125&group_id=54&atid=291 Date: 2014-11-12 21:02 Sender: Nicolas Braud-Santoni PS: I believe that having ocamlfind_destdir be destdir/`ocamlfind printconf destdir` by default would be reasonable semantics for -destdir, tough. As Magnus remarked, expecting an ocamlfind-specific flag exposes the fact that ocamlfind is being used, and breaks the principle of least astonishment. Date: 2014-11-12 20:55 Sender: Nicolas Braud-Santoni This issue can be worked-around in the following way: OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)" mkdir -p "${OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR}" OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR="${OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR}" ocaml setup.ml -install --destdir "${DESTDIR}" However, it would be great if this bug was fixed. Date: 2010-08-25 19:58 Sender: Magnus Therning Sure, it's OK. I just have to say that it isn't very elegant at all, since it leaks the fact that "ocamlfind" is used underneath. I fully realise that it is the most logical choice, and that this relative ugliness in oasis stems from the fact that "ocamlfind" is an amazingly confused tool that reeks of feature creep and strange design decisions. Date: 2010-08-24 10:35 Sender: Sylvain Le Gall --destdir has a special meaning for general configure flag (just as prefix) and it applies to everything that is installed (data/bin) except. The best option I can provide to you is the following: - add an ocamlfind_destdir variable default to None - you can configure it with --ocamlfind-destdir XXX/usr/lib/ocaml - if you set destdir set ocamlfind_destdir to $(destdir)/$(ocamlfind printconf destdir) - when invoking ocam setup.ml -install, if the variable ocamlfind_destdir has a value, add --destdir $(ocamlfind_destdir) to the command line, otherwise don't add anything Is this ok for you ?

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Changes: Field Old Value Date By Due in version 0.4.7 2016-09-03 21:31 gildor-admin Due in version None 2016-06-19 14:24 gildor-admin Resolution None 2016-06-19 14:24 gildor-admin assigned_to none 2010-08-24 10:35 gildor-admin