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ocamlbuild - how to force the rebuilding of a target inside a plugin?
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Vincent Aravantinos
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Nicolas Pouillard
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| From: | Vincent Aravantinos <vincent.aravantinos@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild - how to force the rebuilding of a target inside a plugin? |
Le 22 févr. 10 à 14:45, Nicolas Pouillard a écrit : > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:15:09 +0100, Vincent Aravantinos <vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com > > wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> does anybody (Nicolas?) knows if it is possible to force a target to >> be rebuilt from within an ocamlbuild plugin? >> >> Concretely I am making a plugin for LaTeX compilation and would like >> to say to ocamlbuild: >> "first compile the source, then if the .aux file has changed then >> recompile it". > > I would suggest to not try to bypass the dependency system and to > instead > try to make a rule that fits ocamlbuild mechanism. However the simpler > is maybe to call a tool which does this job like rubber. Great, I didn't know of this tool! I'll use it. Still, would have it been possible to make a dependency on the .aux file such that ocamlbuild can be aware that this file changed in order to launch a new compilation? V.