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 SAA05195; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:01:10 +0200 (MET DST) 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 SAA05266 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:01:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3FG29jq019916 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:02:10 +0200 Received: from [64.162.212.212] (HELO tallman.kefka.frap.net) by calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 17098440; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:01:04 -0700 Received: by tallman.kefka.frap.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:00:11 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:00:11 -0700 From: Kenneth Knowles To: skaller Cc: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: GODI vs. Ocamake Message-ID: <20040415160011.GA6233@tallman.kefka.frap.net> References: <005e01c421f5$2dd45210$ef01a8c0@warp> <1081943666.20677.685.camel@pelican> <20040414164957.GA24089@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <1081991111.20677.877.camel@pelican> <20040415063426.GA24925@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <1082014418.20677.1125.camel@pelican> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082014418.20677.1125.camel@pelican> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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; knowles:99 caml-list:01 ocamake:01 2004:99 2004:99 knowles:99 fragment:01 autoconf:01 autoconf:01 flags:01 ocaml:01 handles:01 makefile:02 wrote:03 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:33:38PM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:34, Kenneth Knowles wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:05:12AM +1000, skaller wrote: > > > I never said they were perfect. I don't use them. However, I don't know of > > anything other than a custom-rolled Makefile that handles such things. Are you > > suggesting one? If so, I'm very interested, and I may have missed it in your > > previous messages. > > I'm suggesting a whole class of them: general purpose languages. > Here's a fragment from the Felix build script. > Who needs autoconf? > > [script] Do you see how you are doing the same work as autoconf, but in a language other than m4/shell? Moreover almost all of that should be provided by the build tool, not written by the programmer. A reasonable size of build script to locate the ocaml tools and set a couple flags is under a dozen lines. Kenn ------------------- 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