From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249B6BC0A for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:04:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (CHOKECHERRY.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.41]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4FD4ZVU015331 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:04:36 +0200 Received: from stratocaster.home (c-67-165-53-182.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [67.165.53.182]) (authenticated bits=0) by chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4FD4WLq005101 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 09:04:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ecc by stratocaster.home with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hnwhc-0008MV-30 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 15 May 2007 09:04:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:04:32 -0400 To: Caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Compiling a library with findlib Message-ID: <20070515130432.GA31898@stratocaster.home> Mail-Followup-To: Caml-list References: <20070514070609.GA3876@galois> <20070514173710.GB14249@stratocaster.home> <20070515090926.GA9258@zen> <4649862C.6040704@rftp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4649862C.6040704@rftp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Eric Cooper X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4649AFE3.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; findlib:01 ocaml:01 distros:01 makefile:01 subset:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 compiling:02 library:03 complex:04 perhaps:04 i'd:05 tue:06 standard:07 On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:06:36AM -0700, Robert Roessler wrote: > Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > >... > >As I said, I'd prefer not to use OCamlMakefile if possible... Does such > >a choice look unwise to you all ? > > Not at all... but then, perhaps like you, I believe that "make" is > perfectly adequate for most small-to-medium build tasks, and that > truly "open" software is designed to be built with standard tools > available in either the stock distribution of OCaml or at least easily > found for the dominant platforms: Windows, the major *nix distros, and > Mac OS X. ;) Sorry, I must have missed the OP's objection to using OCamlMakefile. But in any case, it's just a (big, complex) Makefile, so even if you don't want to use it as-is, you can look at what it does, and adopt a subset of its rules for your application. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u