On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:52:20PM +0100, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > There should be three variants: pkg-config, OS-based userspace policy > > (/usr/include vs. /usr/local/include) and user-defined one. > > > > I think the pkg-config is the starting point, it also defines the prefix > of the setup.data variable that we will use.
> For you OS-based detection, I can propose a header(XXX), lib(XXX). This > will be cumulative (i.e. you can define several header and lib). > > Example: > BuildDepends: > freetype2(pkg-config, header(freetype/freetype.h), lib(freetype), >= 2.0.4), > oUnit > > The headers and libs fields are extra methods. If you define > them, we will try to find a set of -Idirs that help to find the > matching headers or a -Ldirs to find the matching libs. > > We will only do a detection using Sys.file_exists (i.e. don't try to > link or anything similar). > > The detection method start with pkg-config and if it fails goes to > headers/libs. Excellent. I agree. I hope that default dirs for searching using Filename.exists will be defined somewhere not especaiily deeply. [..] ermine _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
