From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA09413; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:29:20 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 VAA09657 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:29:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from pop19.ucdavis.edu (pop19.ucdavis.edu [169.237.105.29]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i23KTSIq017448 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:29:29 +0100 Received: from manzanita ([128.120.141.214]) by pop19.ucdavis.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9/it-std-5.2.0) with SMTP id i23KTHox011278 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:29:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by manzanita (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:29:06 -0800 From: "Issac Trotts" Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:29:06 -0800 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] Development versions: ocamlconf, ASPCC Message-ID: <20040303202906.GB1151@manzanita> Mail-Followup-To: ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu, caml-list@inria.fr References: <20040303014757.GA23400@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040303051611.GA1204@manzanita> <20040303062539.GA27167@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <87wu611z84.fsf@linux-france.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wu611z84.fsf@linux-france.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; issac:01 trotts:01 ijtrotts:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 knowles:99 mlc:99 mlc:99 autoconf:01 dependencies:01 bundling:01 issac:01 trotts:01 redwood:99 compiler:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 39 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:56:27PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: > Hello Kenneth, > > Kenneth Knowles writes: > > > The configure script (actually configure.mlc, for technical reasons, > > and the configure script is a shell wrapper around `ocaml configure.mlc`) is > > also plain text ocaml, but with additional code copied into it. > > So the produced configure script is an OCaml program that needs the > ocaml environment to run? I share all the objections against autoconf, > but at least it produces a simple sh script that can run on any (unix) > system. The role of a configure script is also to find the ocaml > compiler or warn that it is a requirement. That's said, I admit that if > somebody intends to compile an OCaml program, he probably have ocaml on > his machine. But that's still introduce a dependency *before* running > the configure script of which role is to find dependencies. We could solve this problem by bundling a simple sh script to check whether OCaml is installed, and maybe get it if not. -- Issac Trotts http://redwood.ucdavis.edu/~issac ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners