[Fedora-packaging] OCaml library packaging - no-arch for non-devel?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Alan Dunn wrote:
> Does anyone know whether OCaml library main packages (non-devel
> packages) should be packaged as no-arch, since they only contain
> bytecode files, which should be architecture independent? 

This is  incorrect. For common architectures, OCaml generates native
machine code - bytecode is only used as a fallback for archs with no
native code generator backend.

virt-top for example is written in OCaml and is clearly arch dependant:

$ file virt-top
virt-top: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
   dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped


Daniel
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