0005285: ocamlbuild: provide a way to run some rules in source directory

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0005285

OCaml

OCamlbuild (the tool)

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2011-06-08 11:59

2011-06-15 09:49

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ygrek

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xclerc

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normal

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feature

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always

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assigned

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open

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3.11.2

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0005285: ocamlbuild: provide a way to run some rules in source directory

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Sometimes it is desirable to keep generated files (e.g. some source-to-source transformation or code generation by third-party tools) in VCS and hence in source directory, not in _build. But all custom myocamlbuild rules get executed in _build and the result is also stored there. Moreover, copying result to the source directory prevents ocamlbuild from rebuilding it on the next run.
Currently I am using extra rules in Makefile to generate such files.
I wish I could specify these rules in myocamlbuild (maybe some per-rule flag to run it in source directory (but that would probably break parallel building because of process-wide chdir effect). Any ideas?

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-06-08 11:59	ygrek	New Issue
2011-06-15 09:49	xclerc	Status	new => assigned
2011-06-15 09:49	xclerc	Assigned To	=> xclerc
2012-02-02 15:17	protz	Category	OCamlbuild => OCamlbuild (the tool)