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OCamlbuild's 'predicate' tag badly translated into OCamlfind parameter #5356

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vicuna opened this issue Sep 15, 2011 · 0 comments
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OCamlbuild's 'predicate' tag badly translated into OCamlfind parameter #5356

vicuna opened this issue Sep 15, 2011 · 0 comments
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vicuna commented Sep 15, 2011

Original bug ID: 5356
Reporter: dario
Assigned to: @xclerc
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2012-09-25T18:07:21Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.12.1
Fixed in version: 3.12.1+dev
Category: -for ocamlbuild use https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild/issues
Monitored by: mehdi dario @ygrek

Bug description

As part of OCamlbuild's native support for OCamlfind, the special tag 'predicate' may be used to select any predicates declared with a package.

The bug is that OCamlbuild translates a 'predicate(foo)' tag into '-predicate foo', whereas OCamlfind expects '-predicates foo'. Note the missing 's'...

Relevant section of OCamlfind manual:
http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/dl/findlib-1.2.7/doc/guide-html/x307.html
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