On 9 Jan 2002, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> kronstadt:~$ ocamlc -i foo.ml > foo.mli
> I/O error: foo.cmi: No such file or directory

This one is classical.

When you use > foo.mli, the shell creates foo.mli BEFORE running ocamlc.
So when ocamlc sees that there is a .mli file, it looks for the
corresponding .cmi and complains loudly that it does not exist.

The solution is to do
ocamlc -i foo.ml > foo.mli.tmp
mv foo.mli.fmp foo.ml

I guess that the compiler should accept a -output-mli option or something
similar, to avoid the above kludge.


David Monniaux            http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux
Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École Normale Supérieure,
Paris, France

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