[Caml-list] Forcing OCamlbuild to compile a file before another

[Dario Teixeira <dario.teixeira@nleyten.com>]

Hi,

How does one force OCamlbuild to compile a file before another
when it cannot automatically infer their dependency?

For instance, compilation fails because OCamlbuild tries to compile
lambwiki_parser.mly before lambwiki.ml. To get around it, I added
the following to the "After_rules" of my dispatcher:

dep ["menhir"; "file:lambwiki_parser.mly"] ["lambwiki.cmo"]

My assumption was that this told OCamlbuild that using Menhir to
compile file lambwiki_parser.mly added an explicit dependency
on lambwiki.cmo (which in turn can be obtained by compiling
lambwiki.ml).  This doesn't work, however, so perhaps my
mental model of how OCamlbuild works is not correct.

Any ideas on how to get this to work as intended?

Thanks in advance for your attention!
Best regards,
Dario Teixeira