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From: moosotc@gmail.com
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interface(.mli) location
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:16:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y447npv3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBFYDnUjR4c1cUykoT8ekVM4ozOchzBHZi_URkXEimZLZw@mail.gmail.com> (Gabriel Scherer's message of "Mon, 8 Aug 2016 19:03:34 +0200")

Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> writes:

> It is correct that ocamldep assumes that the .ml and .mli of a given
> module are at the same place, but this is not the case for the rest of
> the compilation chain, which is either concerned with single source
> files (a .ml file or a .mli file) or with "compilation units" (a .cmo
> and .cmi files passed together, independently of where their source
> files were). In particular, all type-checking tools do look in -I
> directories to find .cmi files for the dependencies of the module
> being compiled (and at this stage they do not care for .mli files).

But the script seems to (somewhat) contradict this, i.e. after `ocamlc
-I d -c a.ml' ocamlc ignores the presence of .mli inside subdirectory
d/, producing both .cmi/.cmo when when compiling a.ml.

[..snip..]

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-08 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-08 16:09 moosotc
2016-08-08 17:03 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-08-08 17:12   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-08-08 17:16   ` moosotc [this message]
2016-08-08 18:30     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 18:57       ` moosotc
2016-08-08 19:39         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-08 19:59           ` moosotc
2016-08-08 22:54             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09  8:45               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 16:26                 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 17:55                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 10:56               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:43                 ` moosotc
2016-08-09 11:46                   ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:08                     ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:35                       ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:59                         ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 19:55                           ` moosotc
2016-08-10  8:20                             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-10 10:38                               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 18:33             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:38               ` moosotc
2016-08-09 19:02                 ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09  9:22           ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 16:32             ` David Allsopp
2016-08-09 18:10               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-09 18:26                 ` David Allsopp

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