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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] One build system to rule them all?

Le 10/09/2014 16:17, Maxence Guesdon a écrit :
> I can't resist to add good old Make to the list, not specific to OCaml,
> yet powerful enough and known by a lot of developers.
>
No.
Every single makefile to compile ocaml (except OCaml-makefile[1]) I have 
encountered are broken. Every single one of them. OCaml compilation 
process is too complex to be able to fire some rules and be done with 
it; especially if you want portability.

Please, don't write makefiles.

[1]: https://github.com/mmottl/ocaml-makefile