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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Suggested way to determine platform specific capabilities in build system?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:36:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150421213636.GA5589@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ftfoudd.fsf@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:51:42AM +0000, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What is the current suggested way to determine what, roughly, autoconf
> would do for you?  I have some platform specific functionality to be
> included (or excluded) depending on the OS.

Is there a reason not to use autoconf?  I use it all the time with
OCaml projects, eg:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs
https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin

and a random more recent example:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=mclu.git;a=tree

There are ocaml.m4 macros on ocamlforge.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-21 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-14 10:51 Malcolm Matalka
2015-04-14 11:23 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-04-14 13:17   ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2015-04-19  6:47   ` Adrien Nader
2015-04-19  8:38     ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-04-19 10:13       ` David Allsopp
2015-04-19 12:11         ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-04-19 19:14           ` Emmanuel Surleau
2015-04-20  9:55             ` Ben Millwood
2015-04-17 10:38 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2015-04-21 21:36 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]

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