FWIW, `ocp-build` has a specific variable to overcome `ocamldep`
limitations.

You can for example describe a library like that:

```
begin library "foobar"
  requires = [ "unix" "my-other-lib" ]
  files = [
       "bar.ml" (nodeps = [ "Foo" ])    (*   <---- module Bar does not
depend on Foo, even if `ocamldep` says the contrary *)
       "foo.ml"
   ]
end
```

It also has a specific algorithm to discover cycles in build rules and
display the cycle in a user-friendly fashion, so that finding the arguments
for `nodeps` becomes easier.

--Fabrice



On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 5:33 PM Soegtrop, Michael <
michael.soegtrop@intel.com> wrote:

> Dear OCaml Users,
>
> a note for those reading this thread later:
>
> I finally used the module rec approach as outlined by Petter A. Urkedal in
> his previous post, although some people said in various places that this is
> overkill if you have issues with just a few functions. The module structure
> implied by the module rec approach was in the end nicer than my original
> module structure (which didn't work cause of the circular dependency). It
> was also much less work to restructure the modules than I thought. I tried
> several other approaches (function references, putting all functions
> calling each other into one file, treat mli and ml files separately in the
> build system), but they all appeared to be inferior, either in terms of
> effort or in terms of clarity, usually both.
>
> So I came to the conclusion that long term there is no issue with properly
> declaring recursive module structures using "module rec", although it can
> be quite a pain short term. For resolving some short term hacks (e.g. for
> experiments), one can still use the function reference approach.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
>
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