[ocaml-platform] Passing flags to the OCaml configure script?

[Yong Lu]

I'm using a 64bit Linux distro.

Thanks,

Yong 

On Mar 31, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:

> Are you on a 32-bit platform by any chance?  If you clone:
> http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository
> 
> and look in the compilers/ directory, you can copy one of those into a custom compiler.  Several of them define custom configure flags (look at the debug runtime one).
> 
> You can use the local cloned repository via
> 
> $ opam remote add dev <directory>
> 
> and the new compiler should appear.
> 
> -a
> 
> On 31 Mar 2013, at 03:57, Yong Lu <lyongu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm writing to ask if there is a way to tell OPAM to pass flags to the OCaml config script?  
>> 
>> The reason I'm asking is because I was experimenting with dynamically linked share library (http://www.camlcity.org/knowledge/kb_002_shared_library.html), and the instructions require me to compile OCaml with the fPIC flag:
>> 
>> <quote>
>> How to enable PIC for libasmrun.a: 
>> When building OCaml, you need to configure it so that PIC is enabled:
>> 
>> ./configure -cc "gcc -fPIC" -aspp "gcc -c -fPIC"
>> 
>> 
>> </quote>
>> 
>> I searched the OPAM manual but could not find a solution.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Yong
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