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From: "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
To: Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@lri.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocamlbuild: the "rule" API function and tags
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:54:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202809819-sup-897@port-ext6.ensta.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B16B45.8010007@lri.fr>

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Excerpts from Romain Bardou's message of Tue Feb 12 10:47:49 +0100 2008:
> Hello,
Hello,

> The API function "rule" for Ocamlbuild has an argument "~tags" which 
> seems to be used, in the file "ocaml_specific.ml" of the Ocamlbuild 
> source, to restrict the rule to targets using specific tags.

Forget  about  the  ~tags  argument  of the "rule" function, it's a deprecated
feature (as the last documentation of the function say it).

> However, when I tried to add a rule in my plugin, the rule is called 
> whatever the tags of the file may be.

Yes the argument is ignored.

> How can I control when a rule will be triggered using tags? I need to 
> restrict my rule to files that use tag "test", for instance.

You can't, but perhaps is there another way to obtain the same final result.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12  9:47 Romain Bardou
2008-02-12  9:54 ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2008-02-12 10:03   ` [Caml-list] " Romain Bardou
2008-02-12 10:34     ` Nicolas Pouillard

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