Original bug ID: 6053
Reporter: @avsm
Status: resolved (set by @damiendoligez on 2017-03-01T15:56:43Z)
Resolution: suspended
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Category: -for ocamlbuild use https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild/issues
Monitored by: @gasche @hcarty

Bug description

We're using ocamlbuild and ocamlfind for all of our examples in Real World OCaml, and it's painfully verbose to use:

$ ocamlbuild -use-classic-display -use-ocamlfind -tag thread -pkg core foo.native

...for every single build command. It would be wonderful if a couple of the more frequently used flags could provide shorter alternatives. My ideal command line above would be:

$ ocamlbuild -vf -tag thread -pkg core foo.native

(i.e. map -use-classic-display to -v and -use-ocamlfind to -f, since neither of those can be shortened via alternative mechanisms such as a _tags file)