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

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:45:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
> 
> * 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

Two files actually, because you'll want to include the man page.

> 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.

FWIW in Fedora I just packaged the file in
/usr/share/ocaml-autoconf/ocaml.m4, and the man page tells people to
manually copy this file into their project.

This is analogous to how the other autotools work -- eg. look at
/usr/share/*/*.m4 and /usr/share/*/*/*.m4.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat