[Caml-list] malfunctioning -o command-line argument?

[Caml-list] malfunctioning -o command-line argument?

[Ohad Rodeh]

List,
   I don't know how I haven't noticed this behavior before, but it seems
like the -o command-line argument for ocamlc/ocamlopt does not work in all
cases.
For example, if  foo.ml is a file then:
      ocamlc -c foo.ml -o /tmp/foo.cmo
will create foo.cmo in the current directory rather then /tmp.
This is also the case for .mli files. Furthermore, if I compile an .mli
file, move the .cmi file to /tmp, and compile the .ml like this:
      ocamlc -c foo.mli
      mv foo.cmi  /tmp
      ocamlc -I /tmp -c foo.ml
Then ocamlc will not be able to find foo.cmi.

Is this a bug or a feature?

For what I'm doing right now (multi-achitecture compilation support) I'd
really like this to work.

      Ohad.
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IBM Haifa, storage research

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Re: [Caml-list] malfunctioning -o command-line argument?

[Nicolas George]

Le quintidi 15 pluviôse, an CCXI, Ohad Rodeh a écrit :
>       ocamlc -c foo.ml -o /tmp/foo.cmo
> will create foo.cmo in the current directory rather then /tmp.

> Is this a bug or a feature?

According to the man page, it is a feature:

       -o exec-file
              Specify the name of the output file produced by the linker.

It works for the linker, but not for the compiler.
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Re: [Caml-list] malfunctioning -o command-line argument?

[Ohad Rodeh]

Alright then, can we make this a feature request?

      Ohad.
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Ohad Rodeh
tel: +972-3-6401641
IBM Haifa, storage research


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Le quintidi 15 pluviôse, an CCXI, Ohad Rodeh a écrit :
>       ocamlc -c foo.ml -o /tmp/foo.cmo
> will create foo.cmo in the current directory rather then /tmp.

> Is this a bug or a feature?

According to the man page, it is a feature:

       -o exec-file
              Specify the name of the output file produced by the linker.

It works for the linker, but not for the compiler.
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Re: [Caml-list] malfunctioning -o command-line argument?

[Fabrice Le Fessant]

>  Le quintidi 15 pluviôse, an CCXI, Ohad Rodeh a écrit :
>  >       ocamlc -c foo.ml -o /tmp/foo.cmo
>  > will create foo.cmo in the current directory rather then /tmp.

Arguments are treated in the order they are read: here, foo.ml is
compiled before, and the -o option is added after. Fix:

ocamlc -c -o /tmp/foo.cmo foo.ml


- Fabrice
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Re: [Caml-list] malfunctioning -o command-line argument?

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:59:16PM +0100, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
> Arguments are treated in the order they are read: here, foo.ml is
> compiled before, and the -o option is added after. Fix:
> 
> ocamlc -c -o /tmp/foo.cmo foo.ml

This doesn't work for me, are you sure?

   ~$ cat a.ml 
   prerr_endline "a";;
   ~$ ocamlc -c -o /tmp/a.cmo a.ml 
   ~$ ls a.*
   a.cmi  a.cmo  a.ml
   ~$ ls /tmp/a.*
   ls: /tmp/a.*: No such file or directory

Cheers

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