From: William R <r.3@libertysurf.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Announcing yet another Makefile for OCaml
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:43:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DF76A5.1020805@libertysurf.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DF18CB.6000809@caesar.elte.hu>
Hello,
could you explain differences with OCamlMakefile (and pros!) , which
seems to be similar to your project, but which is maintained from quite
a long time now ?
https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/ocaml-makefile
why not contribute to this project if you introduced compatible clever
ideas ?
Regards
On 01/22/2014 02:03 AM, Christian Rinderknecht wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I would like to announce a Makefile for small OCaml projects.
>
> Although this list is read by many seasoned programmers who likely use
> ocamlbuild, those who prefer total control over the build process and
> beginners alike may find it useful. It is distributed along with a
> manual and a detailed documentation in ASCII. The requirements, beyond
> the obvious, are GNU Make 3.82 or 4.00 (later recommended for
> paralellism), GNU Sed, Linux (with GNU coreutils) or Darwin (OS X) and
> dash or bash.
>
> Particular emphasis has been brought to reporting only independent
> errors and minimising recompilations. The makefile has no interface
> with control version systems, but it detects modifications, deletions
> and creations of source files between build cycles, and it reacts
> appropriately so there is no need to restart a build cycle from a
> clean slate to correct an inconsistency. Note that, as usual with
> makefiles, this build system relies only on time stamps to determine
> its actions.
>
> Since this is a beta release, you are very welcome to report any
> errors. Let me also know if you improve portability (e.g., the sed
> regular expressions are mostly compatible with BSD sed, but not
> quite).
>
> The urls are
>
> http://pnyf.inf.elte.hu/rinderkn/Software/OCaml/Makefile
> http://pnyf.inf.elte.hu/rinderkn/Software/OCaml/Makefile.man
> http://pnyf.inf.elte.hu/rinderkn/Software/OCaml/Makefile.doc
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christian
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 1:03 Christian Rinderknecht
2014-01-22 7:43 ` William R [this message]
2014-01-22 19:22 ` Christian Rinderknecht
2014-01-22 23:30 ` John Whitington
2014-01-23 0:08 ` Christian Rinderknecht
2014-01-23 9:35 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-23 10:36 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-01-23 14:47 ` Christian Rinderknecht
2014-01-24 16:18 ` Christian Rinderknecht
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