framework, and the buildlink wrapper has been modified to deal with
quoted arguments properly.
Changes:
- 1.5.3: The installation of "bytes" respects now $prefix and the configured
destination.
New option -pp for "ocamlfind query", to get preprocessor packages.
Updated the compatibility Bytes module to support extend, init, mapi,
blit_string (Gabriel Scherer).
- 1.5.2: support for the query formats "%+a" and "%+A".
Fix: the "ppx" property is now also path-expanded when interpreted in a
toploop.
Fix: implicit "ppx" is not path-expanded anymore.
Fix: Build bytes.cmxs only if natdynlink is enabled (Andy Ray).
- 1.5.1: includes a file that was missing in 1.5
- 1.5: Including the "bytes" package that is either a compat package for ocaml
< 4.02 or a fake package for ocaml >= 4.02. The package aims at helping to
support the transition to the new "bytes" type for mutable strings.
Also installing findlib.cmxs if OCaml supports it.
Allowing to disable camlp4 (in prep for OCaml-4.02).
The "ppx" package property can be specified for constructing ppx-type
preprocessors (patches from Peter Zotov).
- 1.3.2: Handling of empty arguments (Wojciech Meyer).
Added entry for camlp4.fulllib.
New switch -add for "ocamlfind install" (Hans Ole Rafaelsen).
Further fixes for ocaml-4.00.
Fixing the recognition of double .cmi interface files.
Fixing -dontlink (it is now deeply interpreted).
- 1.3.1: Fixing a bug with ocamlmklib that slipped through in 1.3.0
- 1.3.0: Fixes for ocaml-4.00 (especially topfind).
Emitting an error if the configuration file does not exist.
Emitting a warning if the selected toolchain does not exist.
camlp4 is referenced by "+camlp4" in META.
Including the sources for the documentation in the tarball.
License change (simplification) for num_top_printers.mli.
Fix ocamlmklib wrapper: processing contracted args (like -L/dir) correctly.
Many wrappers get a new option -passrest instructing to pass all remaining
options on the command-line unchanged to the invoked tool.
Prettified -help output.
Changes:
- 1.2.5: Fix: Again CR deletion... Turns out some OS do not understand '\r'
but only '\015' (thanks to Isaiah Weiner)
Support for Win64 (untested; thanks to David Allsopp)
ocamlfind no longer emits auto-generated -ccopt options. These tend to
accumulate, and it is possible that for large projects the maximum command
line length is exceeded. Current versions of the O'Caml compilers do not
need these extra -ccopt anyway, so this code is completely dropped.
- 1.2.4: Fix: Bigarray needs unix (Thanks to Markus Mottl)
Fix: In the version of camlp4 provided by O'Caml 3.11 various libraries do
not contain dynlink anymore. Because of this, dynlink becomes a
prerequisite of camlp4. (Thanks to Martin Jambon)
Attempt: Fixing the space issue for paths (Win32). It is unclear whether it
is solved. (Thanks to Christophe Troestler)
- 1.2.3: Solving the CR deletion differently, to make OS X happy.
- 1.2.2: Fix: Problem with CR character (Cygwin) (Thanks to David Allsopp)
Fix: Case-insensitive filesystems (partially solved) (Thanks to David
Allsopp)
Fix: File name with backslashes at the end (Win32; thanks to Dmitry
Grebeniuk)
- 1.2.1: Fix: Camlp4 rules now activate the stream parser extension
- 1.2: Fix in build scripts: Prepending $(prefix) when installing safe_camlp4
(thanks to Daniel Janus)
Non-existing -I directories are ignored (thanks to Nicolas Pouillard)
A script to create a MacOS X package (thanks to Pietro Abate)
Better support for Windows (with help from Robert Roessler and David
Allsopp)
Support for camlp4 on O'Caml 3.10
Fix: "ocamlfind install" with "-patch" option writes now correct META file
for the case that subpackages occur
Adding environment variable OCAMLFIND_IGNORE_DUPS_IN to reduce the number of
warnings ocamlfind emits
The "findlib" software provides a scheme to manage reusable software
components in the form of libraries, and includes tools that support
this scheme. A library installed as a findlib component is also called
a package. The point is that the findlib scheme allows it to store
metainformation about the library, especially how it can be used in
programs. The packages are kept in the filesystem hierarchy, but the
directory structure is defined by findlib, and there is no way to
deviate from this standard. The library contains functions to look the
directory up that stores a package, to query metainformation about a
package, and to retrieve dependency information about multiple packages.
There is also a tool that allows the user to enter queries on the
command-line. In order to simplify compilation and linkage, there are
new frontends of the various OCaml compilers that can directly deal
with packages.
