Re: [Caml-list] ocaml support in autotools

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I'd like to have ocaml support in autotools (autoconf + automake),

I'd love to see autotol support as well.

> Autoconf support is quite simple to do, and even already done (I easily
> found  reference to
> http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ftp/ocaml/misc/configure.in. But instead of
> loosely distributing those macros in a custom package, as currently done
> in Debian, I'd like to submit them directly to autoconf maintainers
> (with some modification, and with author's agreement of course). They
> are OK for this, provided there is some prior consensus in ocaml
> community first, to avoid continual macro change request of course.

I've never used autotools for Ocaml stuff, but thats because I
have not yet distributed any Ocaml code. That should change
in the next couple of months and I'd be happy to start looking
at this now.

Erik
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