Re: [Xen-devel] ocaml bindings

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

~Andrew

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