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From: Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml support in autotools
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:26:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D33D0C.5020403@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060804071225.0e1e278b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> 
>> This is not really similar to default AC_CHECK_LIB macro, which just
>> determine if using all currently available flags, searched library is
>> available or not.
> 
> AC_CHECK_LIB is rather primitive.
> 
>> Nor to PKG_CHECK_MODULE (closest ocamlfind equivalent
>> in C world) that just returns flags computed by pkg-config.
> 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULE would be a better model.
But it does only retrieve information, it does no actual testing.

My point is separating issues (retrieving information and testing
compilation) allow more versatility for the programmer.

-- 
Guillaume Rousse
Projet Estime, INRIA
Domaine de Voluceau
Rocquencourt - B.P. 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31 16:14 Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-01  8:03 ` [Caml-list] " Stefano Zacchiroli
2006-08-01  8:15 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-08-01  8:30   ` Christian Lindig
2006-08-01  8:51     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-08-01 11:30     ` Hendrik Tews
2006-08-01 12:32       ` skaller
2006-08-01 12:50         ` Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-01 13:13           ` skaller
2006-08-02 12:46     ` Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-02 14:03       ` Christian Lindig
2006-08-01 11:27 ` Hendrik Tews
2006-08-01 11:51   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-08-02 12:28   ` Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-01 17:37 ` Grigory Batalov
2006-08-02 12:29   ` [Caml-list] " Guillaume Rousse
     [not found] ` <44CE6483.9070205@tepkom.ru>
2006-08-03 12:56   ` [Caml-list] " Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-03 21:10     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-08-04  0:40     ` Grigory Batalov
2006-08-04  5:32       ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-08-04  5:41         ` skaller
2006-08-04 12:38           ` Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-04  8:41         ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2006-09-08 14:52           ` Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-04 12:48         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2006-08-05  0:36           ` skaller
2006-08-06  9:22             ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2006-09-08 14:52         ` Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-03 15:10   ` [Caml-list] " Guillaume Rousse
2006-08-03 21:12     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-08-04 12:26       ` Guillaume Rousse [this message]
2006-08-04  1:15     ` Grigory Batalov
2006-08-03 22:42 ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall

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