> > I had not thought about this... Actually, it is not a bad idea, at  
> > least, in my build system. Ideally, the build system would have to  
> > have a way of mangling the library namespace by packaging up  
> > findlib-managed libraries in a single package. Then, it would have  
> > to isse the desired -open directives to an ad-hoc camlp4 syntax  
> > extension. It's a bit of a hack, but it could work. I wonder if it  
> > is general enough a solution to become mainstream, though.
> 
> It doesn't have to be a camlp4 extension, you could implement Alain's  
> trick
> with a preprocessor written in Bourne shell.  But it doesn't work  
> when the
> program is already compiled with -pp, since the OCaml compiler doesn't
> allow for a pipeline of preprocessors.

You still can invent a script foo that successfully call your first bourne shell script bar and then
call camlp4.
Then you just pass -pp foo    to ocaml.

Did I overlook something ? 

> 
> -- Damien
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