Package: ocaml-nox
Version: 4.05.0-11
OCAML is a major cross-building problem.
Appears ocamlmklib is executing `ocamlc` to do compiling/linking. The
man page for `ocamlc` states:
-cc ccomp
Use ccomp as the C linker when linking in "custom runtime" mode
(see the -custom option) and as the C compiler for compiling .c
source files.
Yet despite this it appears `ocamlc` is directly calling `ld` and this
option doesn't change that behavior. `ocamlc` likely also needs a -ld
option to override the linker choice.
Ideally ocamlc would also try the target triplet -cc/-ld before trying
bare `cc` or `ld`. Mainly try `x86_64-linux-gnu-cc` before `cc` and
`x86_64-linux-gnu-ld` before `ld`.
Further `ocamlmklib` and likely nearly every other ocaml-nox executable
needs options to propogate values to these `ocamlc` options.
Additionally `ocamlc -verbose` provided basically no useful information
to figure out what commands were being run behind the scenes.
ocaml-nox badly needs some work to allow for cross-building of packages
which use OCAML.
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