From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EA7BC28 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:15:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au (smtp.syd.people.net.au [218.214.225.98]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k718F6EZ027807 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:15:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 25810 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2006 08:15:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 1 Aug 2006 08:15:13 -0000 Received: from coltrane (coltrane [192.168.1.101]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6917D7B67 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:15:00 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:15:00 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml support in autotools Message-Id: <20060801181500.fcc23a70.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <44CE2C74.4070607@inria.fr> References: <44CE2C74.4070607@inria.fr> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44CF0D8A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 guillaume:01 autoconf:01 autoconf:01 lri:01 filliatr:01 author's:01 nose:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 maintainers:01 macros:01 debian:02 macro:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 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 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I ran it on my DeathStation 9000 and demons flew out of my nose." --Kaz