ocaml cairo

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 09:19:49AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 08:17 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Orion, I realize there was not anything actionable in my last
> > emails.
> > 
> > Could you take a look at this scratch build:
> > 
> >   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9273794
> > 
> > and check that it's suitable for what you want.
> > 
> > If plplot is using ocamlfind, then we may need to change the META file
> > in ocaml-cairo.  I essentially made up the package names off the top
> > of my head (as '-package cairo' and '-package cairo.gtk') since
> > upstream doesn't provide any guidance.
> > 
> > Rich.
> > 
> 
> plplot does:
> 
> ocamlfind c -package cairo2 -linkpkg test_cairo.ml -o test_cairo

Thanks for investigating this.

What I propose to do is to change the META file so the packages are
"cairo2" and "cairo2.lablgtk2" respectively.  A new build with that
change is going on here:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9274257

Hopefully this will work ..

Rich.

> with test_cairo.ml:
> module C = Cairo
> 
> and:
> 
> ocamlfind c -package cairo2.lablgtk2 -linkpkg test_gtk.ml -o test_gtk
> module G = Gtk
> module C = Cairo_gtk
> 
> Since apparently the opam name is "cairo2", and since no distribution (yet)
> carries this version, it assumed that's what the name would be:
> 
> commit 84d2a859f31b69c1d440a7a61d5c57528de94355
> Author: Hezekiah M. Carty <hez at 0ok.org>
> Date:   Thu Jul 3 14:46:13 2014 +0000
> 
>     Switch to a different OCaml Cairo binding ("cairo2" in opam)
> 
>     This is a more actively maintained binding to the Cairo library.  It is
>     unfortunately not packaged for Debian at this time so interested users
>     would need to install the library through opam.  opam is generally the
>     recommended way to install and manage OCaml libraries (this cpan, pip, etc)
>     so this isn't a particularly serious limitation.
> 
> debian report on the issue:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649439  CC'ing debian
> maintainer.
> 
> 
> plplot is fairly responsive, so if we think they should change, they may be
> willing to.  CC'ing Hezekiah.
> 
> 
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