Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild generates .annot files in _build

[Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>]

On 07/17/2012 04:00 PM, Xavier Clerc wrote:
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> ----- Mail original -----
>> On 07/17/2012 02:12 PM, Francois Berenger wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Shouldn't it generate theses files where the source files
>>> are?
>>>
>>> The emacs plugin can no more find the types in case
>>> the .annot files are not where the source file is.
>>
>> Also, the preprocessor INCLUDE directives don't work anymore because
>> ocamlbuild did not copy the .ml file to include in _build.
>>
>> You have to use INCLUDE "../[your_file]" instead, which is dirty.
>
> I don't know if you will find my suggestion clean,
> but when I encounter a similar problem I design an
> ocamlbuild plugin that just copies the file to the
> build directory.

Any hacking related to ocamlbuild is out of the question for me.

In a perfect world, I would no more be using ocamlbuild.
I only "use" it because oasis does as the default build engine;
which is not my choice.

Thanks for the suggestion,
F.

> This will avoid relying upon a relative path, and
> fits ocamlbuild structure by just declaring a dependency
> and a rule to barely copy the file from its original
> place to the build directory. Notice that this is akin
> to what ocamlbuild actually does for source file, the
> only difference is that ocamlbuild cannot determine the
> dependency in your case. Hence, you have to declare it
> manually.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Xavier Clerc
>