Re: [Caml-list] Re: ocaml support in autotools

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>]

Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:32:26PM +1000, skaller wrote:
>> AFAIK, you simply cannot 'autoconf' check a required library
>> is available: the check will not reveal the version of Ocaml
>> used to build that library .. and it must be built with
>> the version of Ocaml being used for this tarball build
>> or the library is useless.
>>
>> I think what you actually need to do is:
>>
>> (a) find the appropriate Ocaml program
>> (b) find the candidate library
>> (c) check the time stamps on both, and reject the library
>> unless its date is newer than the ocaml program.
>>
> 
> You can simply run a test link against the OCaml library as part
> of the AC_OCAML_CHECK_LIB (or whatever its called), just as is done
> for C library testing.  This will error out almost always if the
> versions are out of sync.
I also favor this option.

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