Building OxCaml packages for Debian, Fedora, Homebrew and Arch (opens in new tab)

*2026-05-17 — note* I needed to install OxCaml quickly on a fresh machine without any opam machinery. This was an excellent excuse to refresh my memory on how distributing system packages for distributions like Debian, Arch, Fedora and Homebrew work. I've built **oxcaml-pkgs** to churn out native packages for the distros I need, with details below for future reference. These all install an `oxcaml-compiler` package into `/opt`, since anywhere else would clash with the native OCaml packagi...