From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] question: "autoconfiguration" of Ocaml code (checking for libraries)
Date: 29 Jan 2003 22:43:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1043876618.997.20.camel@ice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15928.12917.484208.539720@hector.lesours>
Am Mit, 2003-01-29 um 20.58 schrieb Basile STARYNKEVITCH:
> Dear All
>
> (while working on Poesia - see www.poesia-filter.org for more)
>
> Does anyone have some tricks or code (usable in a GPL-ed opensource
> project) to facilitate configuration (more precisely checking of
> installed tools & libraries) of Ocaml code.
>
> I need something which checks that
>
> Ocaml is installed, with version >= 3.06
>
> ocamlfind is installed (both for bytecode & native)
>
> [actually my wish would be that ocamlfind is part of ocaml, like
> camlp4 is]
>
> xstr is installed (both bytecode & native)
>
> netstring is installed (both bytecode & native)
>
> ocamlnet is installed, at least version >= 0.92
>
> etc..
>
> (Unfortunately, I cannot do distribution specific stuff; I want a
> script usable on Linux Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, ....)
I am normally using self-written shell scripts for that purpose.
They are simple to write, easy to understand, and work for all
Unices.
As an example, here is the configure script of wdialog.
You can find code snippets for all the tests you have
mentioned:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wdialog/wdialog/code/configure?rev=3.6&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Gerd
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-29 19:58 Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2003-01-29 20:04 ` Will Benton
2003-01-29 20:15 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2003-01-29 20:22 ` Will Benton
2003-01-29 21:54 ` Maxence Guesdon
2003-01-30 10:45 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2003-01-30 13:59 ` Damien Doligez
2003-01-29 21:43 ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
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