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Re: Bug#512834: ITP: ocaml-autoconf -- autoconf macros for OCaml



On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:45:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> * Package name    : ocaml-autoconf
>   Upstream Author : Richard Jones, Stefano Zacchiroli, et al.
> * URL             : http://ocaml-autoconf.forge.ocamlcore.org/
> * License         : BSD (3-clauses)
>   Programming Lang: m4
>   Description     : autoconf macros for OCaml
> 
> RFC: this package will consists of just one file:
> /usr/share/ocaml-autoconf/ocaml.m4 , and this puzzles me a bit as
> overkilling. Nevertheless, I've no clue about how autoconf extensions
> should be packaged, and my naive attempts to find similar packages in
> the archive failed.

we also have Jean-Christophe Filliatre's configure.in and Makefile.in templates that
are currenly in the ocaml-tools package, for lack of any better place for it. Maybe
they can be packaged together with ocaml-autoconf, or ocaml-autoconf can be part
of the ocaml-tools package?

-Ralf.


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