Re: [Caml-list] Re: ocaml support in autotools

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:32:26PM +1000, skaller wrote:
> 
> AFAIK, you simply cannot 'autoconf' check a required library
> is available: the check will not reveal the version of Ocaml
> used to build that library .. and it must be built with
> the version of Ocaml being used for this tarball build
> or the library is useless.
> 
> I think what you actually need to do is:
> 
> (a) find the appropriate Ocaml program
> (b) find the candidate library
> (c) check the time stamps on both, and reject the library
> unless its date is newer than the ocaml program.
> 

You can simply run a test link against the OCaml library as part
of the AC_OCAML_CHECK_LIB (or whatever its called), just as is done
for C library testing.  This will error out almost always if the
versions are out of sync.

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Anil Madhavapeddy                                 http://anil.recoil.org
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