[Slackbuilds-users] lablgtk SlackBuilds install overwrites ocaml ld.conf

[Matteo Bernardini]

2014-10-22 16:39 GMT+02:00 Jason Graham <jgraha8 at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> When building and installing lablgtk (2.18.0) I've found that the ocaml
> ld.conf file located in:
>
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml/ld.conf
>
> is overwritten, thus removing critical library paths. I encountered this
> problem when trying to build and install unison (2.40.63) which has the
> following set of SlackBuild dependencies:
>
>     ocaml (4.01.0)
>     ocaml-findlib (1.4.1)
>     lablgtk (2.18.0)
>
> During the unison build the following error is encountered:
>
>     Error: Error on dynamically loaded library: dllunix.so: dllunix.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> where dllunix.so is located in /usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs. Prior to the
> lablgtk installation the ocaml ld.conf file contained the following paths:
>
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml/site-lib/stublibs
>
> Once lablgtk is installed, ld.conf then erroneously contains only:
>
>     /tmp/SBo/package-lablgtk/usr/lib64/ocaml/site-lib/lablgtk2
>
> Manually restoring the library paths to:
>
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml/site-lib/stublibs
>     /usr/lib64/ocaml/site-lib/lablgtk2
>
> resolves the unison build.
>
> The required fix to the lablgtk SlackBuild would seem be to append
> /usr/lib64/ocaml/site-lib/lablgtk2 to the pre-existing ocaml ld.conf file. I
> believe the issue may be with the install portion of the ocaml-4.01.0.tar.xz
> package, so not sure if would be a SlackBuild configuration issue or an
> upstream problem.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions, or fixes?

Hi Jason,

I tried to prepare a patch for lablgtk (that also updates it to
2.18.2, http://lablgtk.forge.ocamlcore.org/changes2.txt): I forward
everything to the maintainer of ocaml and lablgtk for revision.

Matteo
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