allows for installation of .cmxs files, changes include:
1.7.3:
Fix regarding num-top: this library is now also optional, as num.
1.7.2:
Trying to protect against failures when several package installs are done in
parallel.
New subpackage "findlib.top" for the toploop (Jeremie Dimino).
The "num" library is now optional.
Shell scripts are started via "sh" command when there is no /bin/sh (ygrek)
Fix man page installation.
Changes:
1.7.1:
added missing file to tarball
1.7.0:
New command "ocamlfind printppx" that outputs
how the ppx preprocessor would be called (Hendrik Tews).
Support for the raw_spacetime library that comes with
OCaml 4.04 (Gerd Stolpmann with help from Mark Shinwell).
Require that ocamlc and ocamlc.opt are installed to the
same directory for emitting the "opt" setting in the generated
config file - same for ocamlopt.opt, ocamldep.opt, ocamldoc.opt.
- Updated INSTALL fragment to detect and add to ld.conf the autodetected
libraries that are part of the standard ocaml installation
Discussed on packages@ and OK'd by jperkin
Uninstalling findlib no longer uninstalls the ocamlbuild library by accident
(Gabriel Scherer, Edwin Török)
Adding an "ocamldoc" library, providing the cmi's for ocamldoc plugins
(suggested by Armaël Guéneau)
Support for OCaml-4.03: recognize that the new -color option has an argument
(reported by Guillaume Bury)
ocaml.mk. It was becoming more trouble than it was worth: only a minority
of packages used it, and it only made Makefiles more confusing.
(I've left out some packages: these will be updated forthwith)
- 1.6.1: Just an important doc fix.
- 1.6.0: Adding support for dynamically loading packages (François Bobot):
new "plugin" variable, new Fl_dynload module.
New command "ocamlfind lint" for checking META files (François Bobot).
Also support MSYS_NT on Windows. Permit spaces in install paths
(Christophe Troestler).
Allow to query the location of the META file of a package:
"ocamlfind query -format '%m'" (Gerd Stolpmann).
Get the install path for the META file of packages:
"ocamlfind printconf metapath" (Gerd Stolpmann).
- 1.5.6: for MSVC build fixing bad filename suffix (Dmitry Bely).
The switch -only-show did not work as described.
(Error report from Bob Atkey.)</p>
Also support mingw64 as system type (Matthieu Dubuget).
Also some changes to wrapper scripts, needed for lang/coq.
Issues found with existing distfiles:
distfiles/eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
distfiles/fortran-utils-1.1.tar.gz
distfiles/ivykis-0.39.tar.gz
distfiles/enum-1.11.tar.gz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-libraries.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-linux.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-system.tgz
No changes made to these distinfo files.
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
- 1.5.5: fixes a build problem for BSD systems
- 1.5.4: New ppxopt META variables (Peter Zotov).
Support for OCAMLFIND_TOOLCHAIN environment variable (Peter Zotov).
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).
* Fixed performance bug when many arguments need to be processed
* Auto-configuring ocamldoc.opt if it is found
* New config switch -no-custom to prevent that "ocamlfind" is linked in
custom-runtime mode (bytecode only)
* The library dbm is no longer part of OCaml, and now optional in findlib
* Support for ocamloptp.
* New function Topfind.log for controlling the verbosity
* Rewritten Fl_metascanner without camlp4
Also changed maintainer e-mail address.
- 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.
