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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797C6BBC1 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:04:51 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAANfMy0fAXQInh2dsb2JhbACBVo8cAQEBCAopnBo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,439,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7952114" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Mar 2008 19:04:48 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m23I4otC001862 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:04:51 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAObLy0eAArkpbGdsb2JhbACBVo8cCwQGBwkZm34 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,439,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="9841453" Received: from chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu ([128.2.185.41]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Mar 2008 19:04:50 +0100 Received: from stratocaster.home (c-71-199-104-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.199.104.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by chokecherry.srv.cs.cmu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m23I4n7T023557 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:04:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from ecc by stratocaster.home with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JWF1t-00050n-4L for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:04:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:04:49 -0500 From: Eric Cooper To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: ocamlbuild's symlink behavior Message-ID: <20080303180449.GA16119@stratocaster.home> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47CC3DC2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; symlink:01 symlink:01 symlinks:01 symlinks:01 symbolic:01 seems:03 rationale:08 target:91 target:91 resulting:11 directory:11 doesn't:12 create:12 difficult:13 build:13 Ocamlbuild seems to create a symbolic link into the _build directory when you build a single target. But it removes that symlink if you build a different target, and it doesn't produce any symlinks if you build a *.otarget. Is there any rationale for this? It makes it difficult to use the resulting symlinks in any kind of build script. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u