Re: [Caml-list] Ocamldep too "gentle".

[Damien <Damien.Pous@ens-lyon.fr>]

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On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:48:18 +0100 Remi Vanicat wrote:

> You could try to look at what the OcamlMakefile do for ocamllex and
> ocamlyacc generated ml file.

I had the same problem with packages (-pack), 
but since there is no source file at all, one cannot do something like
what does OCamlMakefile.

Currently, I do "touch toto.ml; ocamldep ...; rm toto.ml"

but I've also written the attached small patch to ocamldep, 
which add an option "-f <file>", allowing the user to force some
dependencies to be generated even if there is no .ml[i] file.


Hope this help,
damien

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> let additional_dependencies = ref ([] : string list)
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> let add_to_dependencies file = 
>   additional_dependencies := file :: !additional_dependencies
> 
> let dependency_exists file = 
>   List.mem file !additional_dependencies || Sys.file_exists file
> 
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<   find_in_path !load_path
---
>     if      List.mem name  !additional_dependencies then name
>     else if List.mem uname !additional_dependencies then uname
>     else    find_in_path !load_path
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< let usage = "Usage: ocamldep [-I <dir>] [-native] <files>"
---
> let usage = "Usage: ocamldep [-I <dir>] [-f <file>] [-native] <files>"
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>      "-f", Arg.String add_to_dependencies,
>        "<file> Generate dependencies against <file> even if it doesn't exist";