Re: [Caml-list] One build system to rule them all?

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2014, 21:13 +0200 schrieb Drup:
> Le 10/09/2014 16:17, Maxence Guesdon a écrit :
> > I can't resist to add good old Make to the list, not specific to OCaml,
> > yet powerful enough and known by a lot of developers.
> >
> No.
> Every single makefile to compile ocaml (except OCaml-makefile[1]) I have 
> encountered are broken. Every single one of them. OCaml compilation 
> process is too complex to be able to fire some rules and be done with 
> it; especially if you want portability.
> 
> Please, don't write makefiles.

Yes, they are broken, but at least you know very well HOW they are
broken. That's the big advantage to other build systems which are
sometimes difficult to debug.

Gerd

> 
> [1]: https://github.com/mmottl/ocaml-makefile
> 
> 

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