Re: [Caml-list] Forcing OCamlbuild to compile a file before another

[Dario Teixeira <dario.teixeira@nleyten.com>]

Hi again,

> Yeap, I understand.  The good news is that it should be possible to use
> module-aliases/no-aliases-deps/pseudo-circular-recursion within the 
> current
> OASIS+OCamlbuild framework with only minimal extra burden on the user,
> and zero modifications to OASIS or OCamlbuild.
> 
> I had to bump my forehead against the wall a few times, but in the end 
> I've
> managed to get the full combination working on a toy example, and I'm 
> confident
> I can also get it to work on the much larger Lambdoc code base.  I'll 
> keep
> you posted...

(replying to myself here)

I may have spoken too soon on the ease of tweaking a build system based 
on
OASIS + OCamlbuild to work with module aliases and -no-alias-deps: the 
toy
example does compile from scratch, but the build system gets confused by
subsequent modifications to source files.

I have created a branch in the Lambdoc repo for experimenting with this
process [1].  If you try to compile it, it almost works, but you do get
lots of nasty warnings and a generally confused build system.

Kind regards,
Dario Teixeira

[1] https://github.com/darioteixeira/lambdoc/tree/oasification