ocaml-ldconf1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ocaml-ldconf command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

ocaml-ldconf is a program that handles the ocaml specific ld.conf paths. It can be invoked in three different ways.

Without argument, it will generate a new /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file using the content of the system administrator defined /etc/ocaml/ld.conf and the dpkg handled /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf.

With the -l argument, it will simply list the currently active path (well only those in /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf for now).

In the -a/-r variant, ocaml-ldconf will add or remove a list of directories to the dpkg handled /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file for the package named with the -ppackage argument.

Notice that after having manually updated the /etc/ocaml/ld.conf file, the system administrator should recreate the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file by running ocaml-ldconf without arguments.

Options

-a

Adds given paths to the dynamic loading standard path

-r

Removes given paths from the dynamic loading standard path

-p

Gives the package name which adds/removes the paths

-l

Displays the current dynamic loading paths

-v

Display more verbose messages.

-n

Don't update the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file

-help, --help

Show summary of options.

File formats

All three handled files are a list of lines, each containing a directory (for /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf) or a directory plus some other stuff, separated by a space or tabulation (for the two other files). A line begining by a # is considered a comment and ignored.

The /etc/ocaml/ld.conf file format is :

[ directory ] command

Where command can be one of :

The /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file format is :

[ directory ] add [ package ]

Files

/etc/ocaml/ld.conf

The system administrator configuration file.

/var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf

The dpkg managed configuration file.

/usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf

The true ld.conf file taken in account by the ocaml runtime system.