It is unlikely we will ever move to full OCaml CMake language support because of a number of special issues with the OCaml build tools that don't fit into the CMake language paradigm (e.g., a special build subdirectory is required when building the bindings). Therefore, our OCaml build must rely on fundamental add_custom_command and add_custom_target methods which necessarily have lots of dependency complications. The previous implementation did not deal with those complications correctly, but as far as I know the dependencies are dealt with correctly now (revision 10396). For example, if I touch src/libplplotd.so.9.7.0 in the build tree on Linux, the OCaml bindings automatically rebuild which then triggers an automatic rebuild of the OCaml examples. If I then run make again, no rebuilding of anything having to do with OCaml is done (the correct result which was not achieved before). So I am satisfied by the OCaml results I see, but please test on all platforms.
BTW, I checked that "make clean" works perfectly for the OCaml bindings for CMake-2.6.4. There was a comment in bindings/ocaml/CMakeLists.txt that the "clean" target did not properly remove the special _build subdirectory. That is certainly removed now by "make clean" so it appears there was an issue with that directory removal for an older CMake version that is now fixed with 2.6.4. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
