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Date: | 2010-05-21 (05:18) |
From: | Michael_Grünewald <michael.grunewald@l...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] A Tutorial on GNU Make with OCaml |
Dear Jeff, Jeff Shaw wrote: > > Dear OCamlers, > I spent quite a lot of time today getting better acquainted with GNU > make and decided I to share my experience and results. It's a bit on the > newbie friendly side of instruction. > > http://shawjeff.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-is-storytutorial-about-how-i_20.html ten years ago I learned GNU Make and found it awful to program. I had the feeling that it is nit meant to write complex (or mildly complex) makefiles. Instead makefiles should be written by another program. I may be wrong but I think that GNU Make shines when it is used as part of the auto-tools chain, that you may also need to learn. My personal taste goes rather to BSD Make (make in FreeBSD, bsdmake in OS-X and bmake in some other places): I found it much mor eeasy to program, and the FreeBSD build toolchain and ports collection provide a significant amount of Makefile techniques one can draws its inspiration from. I wrote my own macros for my OCaml projects. You can find them here: http://home.gna.org/bsdmakepscripts/ If you are interested in make and makefile techniques, you may have interest in the macros I wrote. You can see them in action in https://forge.ocamlcore.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/?root=libertine Read the various makefiles you found in the repository! Note that if you are looking for an efficient way to handle your projects, it seems that ocamlbuild might be a more reasonable approach. I never used it though. The OCaml build system I wrote is not that good as I would like it to be, for instance it lacks the possibility to compile several versions of a library or program against different ocamlbuild predicates. For simple things, it works very good, however! Of course I am very busy (math post-doc) so I never really wrote documentation for these macros, but the examples are here and I may have time for questions. Remark: the TeX oriented macros I also wrote *are* a bit documented! See http://home.gna.org/bsdmakepscripts/tex.html -- Cheers, Michael