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 BF6F2BB84 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:40:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k71HeNe2005230 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:40:24 +0200 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 TAA31751 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:40:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k71HeMXR005171 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:40:23 +0200 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G7yDp-0006TU-O0 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:40:02 +0200 Received: from nat.relativity.tepkom.ru ([82.179.167.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:40:01 +0200 Received: from bga by nat.relativity.tepkom.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:40:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Grigory Batalov Subject: Re: ocaml support in autotools Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:37:06 +0400 Organization: Lanit-Tercom Message-ID: <20060801213706.046ba31a.bga@tepkom.ru> References: <44CE2C74.4070607@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat.relativity.tepkom.ru X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-alt-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44CF9208.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44CF9206.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 guillaume:01 guillaume:01 ocaml:01 autoconf:01 activedvi:01 autoconf:01 lri:01 filliatr:01 author's:01 2006:98 ccc:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 maintainers:01 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 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:14:44 +0200 Guillaume Rousse wrote: > I'd like to have ocaml support in autotools (autoconf + automake), to > avoid heavy code duplication between several projects (at least > ocmalimages and activedvi). > > 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. We have some modified scripts here too: http://oops.tepkom.ru/projects/template/ There is also a short usage description. > But instead of > loosely distributing those macros in a custom package, as currently done > in Debian, Which Debian package? (autoconf ?) > 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. > > Automake support is more complex, but apparently someone already tried > it, as discussed at > http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2003/12/c9bf9f5d4423a9259f12ccc805fe4c1d.fr.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/automake/2003-12/msg00153.html > I'd be interested in current status of this effort before further > investigation.