From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42852BBAF for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:33:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k71CXBTJ009641 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:33:11 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA27388 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:33:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ash25e.internode.on.net (ash25e.internode.on.net [203.16.214.182]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k71CX8gN009624 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:33:09 +0200 Received: from rosella (ppp15-225.lns2.syd7.internode.on.net [59.167.15.225]) by ash25e.internode.on.net (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k71CWSjQ062111; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:02:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from skaller@users.sourceforge.net) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml support in autotools From: skaller To: Hendrik Tews Cc: Caml List In-Reply-To: References: <44CE2C74.4070607@inria.fr> <20060801181500.fcc23a70.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <054b459f8307f928df4660099b19d65f@vistabella.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:32:28 +1000 Message-Id: <1154435548.22754.85.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44CF4A07.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44CF4A04.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 hendrik:01 tews:01 lindig:01 lindig:01 ocaml:01 autoconf:01 avoided:01 libtool:01 garbage:01 2006:98 wrote:01 sourceforge:01 writes:01 caml-list:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:30 +0200, Hendrik Tews wrote: > Christian Lindig writes: > > I found it much easier to implement the checks that I need in my own > little Perl script rather than relying on Autotools. > > I have the same experience. However, this is only the case > because proper ocaml support is missing from autoconf. I use python myself. Either way, Autotools are exceptionally evil and best avoided at all costs. They rarely even work on Linux, especially libtool which is utter garbage. Not much hope of it being useful on Windows. Really, we don't need this junk when we have real programming languages like Python or Perl to do the work -- and they're a lot more portable than autocrud ever will be. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net