What would be the point of placing all cmo files in the current 
directory? This could even lead to errors if some files have the same 
names, like "bla/foo.ml" and "bli/foo.ml".

My advice would be to use ocamlbuild if you don't like the cmo files in 
the source tree =)

     Romain Bardou

Dmitry Bely a écrit :
> By default Ocaml compilers place output files to the same directory
> where the source resides:
> 
> ocamlc -c ../src/foo.ml -> generates ../src//foo.cmo, not ./foo.cmo as
> one would expect from other compilers experience!
> 
> This can be overwritten by -o flag, but it's a) completely
> undocumented for this purpose (manual says that it only affects the
> linking phase) and b) affects ALL generated files at once.
> 
> Is this the design decision or just a faulty implementation? Should I
> submit a bug report (together with a rather trivial fix) or this
> behavior considered standard because it's too late to change anything?
> 
> - Dmitry Bely
> 
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