> I'm writing a piece of software using O'Caml and GNU autoconf (among
> others).  In C the results of running `./configure' are conveniently
> accessed with `#include "config.h"'.  My current solution is to
> preprocess also the O'Caml code, but this requires some clumsy hacks
> in Makefiles etc.  Is there a better way?  If not, then I'ld suggest
> some flag in O'Caml which would run the source files through cpp.
   
Why not writing Ocaml files directly through configure? Just set
your own variables and apply AC_SUBST to them. And if you need
conditional compilation use camlp4 and pa_ifdef.


In our Ocaml project I let configure write a shell script and
invoke the shell script immediately to write other files
(including ml files). The redirection via a shell script is
necessary because configure might output something like

prefix=/usr/local
libdir=${prefix}/lib



Here are fragments from the relevant files, you can inspect the
full source code at
http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~tews/ccsl/#getandrun.


configure.in fragment
=============================

AC_OUTPUT(Makefile varsubst.sh, sh varsubst.sh)

=============================


varsubst.sh.in
========================================================================

files="Common/config.ml Doc/ccslc.1 Doc/ccslc.html"

prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=/home/tews/Privat/Coda/Work2/Lib/Pvs


echo writing files $files
for f in $files ; do
# echo sed -e "s%@mllibdir@%$libdir%" \< ${mlconfigfile}.in \> ${mlconfigfile}
   echo writing $f
   sed -e "s%@mllibdir@%$libdir%" < $f.in > $f
done
=======================================================================



Common/config.ml.in
===========================================================

let fixedpointlib = "@mllibdir@"

===========================================================

Bye,

Hendrik
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