Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:09:56 +0200
From: Xavier Leroy <leroy@welcome.disi.unige.it>
To: Christian Lindig <lindig@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>,
Subject: Re: ocamlopt and ocamldep
In-Reply-To: <199809051233.OAA00550@infbsstq.ips.cs.tu-bs.de>; from Christian Lindig on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 02:33:27PM +0200
> The ocamldep utility in OCaml 2.0 creates for a file concept.mli that
> uses modules Bitrelation and Bitset a dependency of the following
> form:
>
> concept.cmi: bitrelation.cmo bitset.cmo
This is because bitrelation and bitset do not have an explicit
interface (.mli file). So, their interfaces actually depend on
their source file (.ml file), but "make" has a hard time understanding
this; the dependency on the .cmo above is what I've found to be
most understandable to "make".
> When compiling for native code this causes uncessessary recompilations
> of the files bitrelation.ml and bitset.ml:
> bitset.ml and bitrelation are already compiled to *.cmx, *.cmi, and
> *.o. Because of the dependency generated by ocamldep they get
> recompiled using the *byte* code compiler and thus new *.cmi files are
> created as well.
> Should cmi-files depend on cmx-files when compiling for native code?
My feeling is that it would complicate the Makefiles for a fairly
small benefit. If you don't like the occasional calls to ocamlc, you
could write .mli files for all your modules (it's good style anyway).
> This does not matter in most cases since OCaml compiles very fast. I
> suspect the recompilation to cause subtle 'inconsistent assumptions
> over interface' errors in conjunction with -unsave -noassert compiler
> flags. However, I was not able to find a small example for this mail
> that reproduces the error.
If you can find one, please send it and I'll look at the problem.
Regards,
- Xavier Leroy
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