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>site-lib</H1
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><H2
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>site-lib -- [Location of package directories]</DIV
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><PRE
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>...somewhere in the filesystem hierarchy...
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+- (optional) postinstall
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+- <TT
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><P
>Every installation of "findlib" has a default location for package
directories, which is normally a directory called "site-lib". The
location can be set by the configuration variables
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>path</TT
> (used to look up packages), and
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>destdir</TT
> (used to install new packages);
see <A
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>.</P
><P
>The name of a package is the name of the package directory. For
example, if <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>destdir=/usr/local/lib/ocaml/site-lib</TT
>, the
package p will be installed in the subdirectory
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>/usr/local/lib/ocaml/site-lib/p</TT
>. This subdirectory
must contain the META file and all other files belonging to the package.
Package names must not contain the '.' character.</P
><P
>The variable <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>destdir</TT
> specifies the directory for
new packages. You can only have one such directory at a time; but of
course you can change this directory in findlib.conf. The command
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ocamlfind install</TT
> puts new packages into this
directory; it is recommended to use this command for installation
because it ensures that the directory layout is right.</P
><P
>For searching packages, findlib uses (only) the variable
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>path</TT
> which may name several locations to look at.</P
><P
>For systems with DLL support another directory may exist: stublibs.
If present, findlib will install DLLs into this directory that is
shared by all packages at the same site-lib location. Findlib remembers
which DLL belongs to which package by special files with the suffix
".owner"; e.g. for the DLL "dllpcre.so" there is another file
"dllpcre.so.owner" containing the string "pcre", so findlib knows
that the package "pcre" owns this DLL. It is not possible that a DLL
is owned by several packages.</P
><P
>If the stublibs directory does not exist, DLLs are installed regularly
in the package directories like any other file.</P
><P
>For special needs, a postinstall and/or a postremove script may be
installed in the site-lib directory. These scripts are invoked after
installation or removal of a package, respectively.</P
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>...somewhere in the filesystem hierarchy...
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\
site-lib
|
+- (optional) stublibs
+- (optional) postinstall
+- (optional) postremove
|
+- <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>package1</I
></TT
>
| |
| +- <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>archive files</I
></TT
>
| +- <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>interface definitions</I
></TT
>
|
+- <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>package2</I
></TT
>
+
:
:
\
: <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>packageN</I
></TT
>
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metaregistry
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+- META.package1
+- META.package2
+
:
\
META.packageN</PRE
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>This is an alternate directory layout collecting all META files in one
directory. You can configure this layout by setting
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>path</TT
> to the absolute location of
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>metaregistry</TT
>. Findlib recognizes that there are
META files in this directory and uses them; it is not necessary to
include <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>site-lib</TT
> into the <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>path</TT
>.</P
><P
>In order to work, the META files must contain a
<TT
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>directory</TT
> directive pointing to the corresponding
package directory that resides below <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>site-lib</TT
>.</P
><P
>The command <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ocamlfind install</TT
> copes with this
layout, too. The variable <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>destdir</TT
> must contain the
absolute location of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>site-lib</TT
>, and the variable
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>metadir</TT
> must contain the absolute location of
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>metaregistry</TT
>. Note that <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ocamlfind
install</TT
> automatically adds a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>directory</TT
>
directive to the META file, so you need not do it manually.</P
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