On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:20 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > I'm trying to use autoconf for ocaml project, and I have troubles with > They are two different strategies here, either generate them on > maintainer host and ship them in the distribution, either generate them > on user's host. There is no choice: it has to be done by the developer because sometimes the dependency is semantic, in particular when order of initialisation matters. For example: (* file 1 *) let a : int opt = ref None ;; (* file 2 *) let _ = a := Some 99 ;; (* file 3 *) let _ = match !a with | None -> failwith "WRONG INIT ORDER" | Some x -> print_endline (string_of_int x) ;; You must link in the given order. Ocamldep can tell 2 and 3 depend on 1, but not that 3 depends on 2. > The second strategy, however, heavily relies on make implementation. > Whereas GNU make happily generate .depend file on the fly with previous > snippet, some other implementations don't, such as Digital Unix's one > (and potentially others). > Make: Cannot open ../.depend. Stop. This is easy to fix: generate a new_makefile and then use a rule something like: cat new_makefile_prefix .depend > new_makefile make -f new_makefile Since this is a rule, the order of evaluation is strict. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
