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OCamlbuild 0.11.0 introduces a change to the way `.cmxs` files are
produced when no `.mldylib` file is absent: it will now use the exact
same semantics as `.cmxa` and `.mllib` file -- in particular, it
should not be necessary anymore to have identical
`foo.{mllib,mldylib}` files, only `foo.mllib` should suffice. See the
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- ocaml#111: added "nostdlib" flag for corresponding ocaml{c,opt} options
(Thomas Wood)
- ocaml#115: add `node_modules` to the list of directories ignored by default
(.svn/, CVS/, .bzr/, .hg/, .git/, _darcs/, node_modules/)
(Yunxing Dai)
- ocaml#125, ocaml#160: added "-toolchain" option for corresponding ocamlfind option.
(whitequark)
- ocaml#127, ocaml#137, ocaml#138: install ocamlbuild's man pages, missing since 4.02
(Adam Sampson and Gabriel Scherer)
- ocaml#130: make sure that -just-plugin always stops after the plugin-build phase
(Gabriel Scherer, report by whitequark)
* ocaml#132, ocaml#159: remove the rule ".cmx -> .cmxs"
Previously, there was a ".cmx -> .cmxa" rule that would
pull a module and its dependencies in a .cmxa, and a separate
".cmx -> .cmxs" rule that would pull only a module as a .cmxs.
The latter is a reasonable default choice, the idea being that
a module's dependencies may often be statically linked with the
program instead of being dynamically linked. But it conflicts with
the presence of a rule ".cmxa -> .cmxs" as soon as the library has
the same name as one of the modules it contains.
The reason why the rule ".cmxa -> .cmxs" matter is that it can be
composed with the rule ".mllib -> .cmxa" to build .cmxs files from
.mllib files, without having to copy each .mllib file into
a separate .mldylib file.
In other terms, the previous behaviour would, by default (in absence
of .mldylib file who always takes priority), only link the module in
the .cmxs file, and people wishing otherwise would have to write
a list of modules in a .mldylib file. The new behavior will, by
default, take the .mllib file or the module dependencies (as for
.cmxa) to build a .cmxs file, and people wishing otherwise will have
to write just the module name in a .mldylib file.
It is unclear whether this change will break some projects on which
users relied on the previous semantics. It seems equally likely that
the previous semantics, when it applied, was a source of bugs
(the .cmxs files didn't have the expected modules) that would not be
discovered by people not testing dynamic linking. Such bugs have
been found and fixed in the following cases:
- <dbuenzli/uucp#9>
- <dbuenzli/uunf#4>
- <dbuenzli/uuseg#4>
(Daniel Bünzli, Jérémie Dimino, Armaël Guéneau, Gabriel Scherer, whitequark)
- ocaml#124, ocaml#136: do not explicitly pass -shared when building shared libraries;
let the compiler decide what to build.
(whitequark)
- ocaml#143-171: migration of Mantis bugtracker issues to the github issue tracker
(Damien Doligez)
- ocaml#172-175, ocaml#177: setting up Continuous Infrastructure (CI) testsuite checks
(whitequark)
- ocaml#202: install license, changes and readme in opam's docdir for `odig`
(Gabriel Scherer, request and review by Daniel Bünzli)
- "noautolink" tag for ocaml{c,opt}
(Gabriel Scherer)
OCamlbuild 0.10.0 introduces a minor change to the way `.cmxs` files
are produced when no `.mldylib` file is absent: it will now use the
exact same semantics as `.cmxa` and `.mllib` file -- in particular, it
should not be necessary anymore to have identical
`foo.{mllib,mldylib}` files, only `foo.mllib` should suffice. See the
detailed Changelog for details.
OCamlbuild 0.9.2 is a release to support OCaml 4.03. Martin Neuhäußer contributed new flags for flambda-specific optimization options. We also extend the scope of the flags -opaque and -for-pack, to align with 4.03 best practices. Note that OCamlbuild should still work correctly under older OCaml releases.
tagging release 4.02.3 git-svn-id: http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/release/4.02.3@16239 f963ae5c-01c2-4b8c-9fe0-0dff7051ff02
6893: "tag not used" warning when using (p)dep to declare linking tags git-svn-id: http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/version/4.02@16162 f963ae5c-01c2-4b8c-9fe0-0dff7051ff02
6893: "tag not used" warning when using (p)dep to declare linking tags git-svn-id: http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/version/4.02@16162 f963ae5c-01c2-4b8c-9fe0-0dff7051ff02
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