From: "Issac Trotts" <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] Development versions: ocamlconf, ASPCC
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:29:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303202906.GB1151@manzanita> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wu611z84.fsf@linux-france.org>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:56:27PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote:
> Hello Kenneth,
>
> Kenneth Knowles <kknowles@uclink.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
> > The configure script (actually configure.mlc, for technical reasons,
> > and the configure script is a shell wrapper around `ocaml configure.mlc`) is
> > also plain text ocaml, but with additional code copied into it.
>
> So the produced configure script is an OCaml program that needs the
> ocaml environment to run? I share all the objections against autoconf,
> but at least it produces a simple sh script that can run on any (unix)
> system. The role of a configure script is also to find the ocaml
> compiler or warn that it is a requirement. That's said, I admit that if
> somebody intends to compile an OCaml program, he probably have ocaml on
> his machine. But that's still introduce a dependency *before* running
> the configure script of which role is to find dependencies.
We could solve this problem by bundling a simple sh script to check
whether OCaml is installed, and maybe get it if not.
--
Issac Trotts
http://redwood.ucdavis.edu/~issac
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 1:47 Kenneth Knowles
2004-03-03 5:16 ` Issac Trotts
2004-03-03 6:25 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-03-03 19:53 ` Issac Trotts
2004-03-03 23:06 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-03-03 19:56 ` David MENTRE
2004-03-03 20:29 ` Issac Trotts [this message]
2004-03-03 22:36 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-03-11 11:09 ` Markus Mottl
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