Re: [Caml-list] Ocamlbuild with findlib + camlp4

[Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

And thanks for the reply.

> Moreover, these lines mean that packages str and so on will only be used 
> when your files are tagged with use_pgsql. Is it really what you want?

Yes.

> I have no experience of ocamlbuild with camlp4 extensions but I guess in 
> your case I would list all packages correctly in the "let packages = 
> ..." definition (unless you don't want to add the -package option for 
> every file?), tag my files which use the camlp4 extension with 
> "use_pgsql", and add a flag such as:

I've been mucking around with the myocamlbuild.ml plugin but still haven't
managed to achieve what I want.  And judging from a previous message by
Nicolas Pouillard, it may be altogether impossible with the current version
of Ocamlbuild.

Anyway, ideally one should be able to specify in the _tags file the findlib
packages that each ml file depends upon.  Suppose that by default you wanted
your ml files to use the "extlib,lwt,ocsigen,pgocaml" packages, but you also
had a "database.ml" file that used the PG'OCaml syntax extension, and therefore
should be preprocessed using the instructions in the "pgocaml.statements"
package.  I could define a _tags file as something like this:

true: pkg(extlib,lwt,ocsigen,pgocaml)
<database.ml>: camlp4, pkg(pgocaml.statements)

Any thoughts on how this could be achieved?  (I'm not even sure if
Ocamlbuild's tags can be parameterised).  This would go a long way
towards simplifying the use of syntax extensions that we've been
discussing in the OSR thread.

Thanks in advance,
Dario Teixeira



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