Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:01:48 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick M Doane To: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp cc: mottl at miss.wu-wien.ac.at Subject: Improving lablgtk installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think that making some minor modifications to the lablgtk installation could make the package more usable. 1) Install the .cmx files. For users of 'ocamldep', the .cmx files are generated as dependencies. I would also imagine this opens up opportunities for inlining. 2) Build a native-code version of gtkThInit.ml 3) Use 'cp -p' instead of regular 'cp' to preserve timestamps. I usually have to 'touch' all the .cm[iox] files after installation so that 'make' doesn't get confused. 4) Better support with OcamlMakefile. It's currently difficult to use these init objects properly. They should be placed before all other .cmo files for order dependence reasons, but it seems that only source files can show up in that location. 5) Optional installation using 'findlib'. Patrick Doane