Makefile (+) has some warts

[rand00]

Hello -

I've just started using eliom and have stumpled upon the following problems several times before making a wrapper-script:

• when running make test.byte - old compiled object files seem not to be updated once in a while if making small changes to sources (will try to find an example if you are interested)
• the {..}.type_mli files are not generated automatically (at least not when there is some syntax/type error that get catched at the 'infer' stage). This leads make test.byte to fail with the error that the file is missing instead of the specific syntax/type error. This is not so nice for beginners to eliom I think - who probabley will use the eliom-distillery as a starting point (would love an ocamlbuild-template instead as written about in #92 ). When trying out the different compilation-methods I think this error also happened while following the manual on compiling with "eliomc and js_of_eliom" from http://ocsigen.org/eliom/5.0/manual/workflow-compilation .
  • (a half-related note) I couldn't get the ocamlbuild part of the manual to work when I tried to follow the section from the previous link.
• subfolders in "_deps" are not created automatically (e.g. "src" and "experiments" for me)

Script that avoids the two first errors:

#! /bin/bash
set -e
make clean
eliomc -ppx -package lwt.ppx -infer src/*.eliom experiments/*.eliom 
make test.byte

Thanks for working on a cool project!

[vasilisp]

Thanks for bringing this up. The build system has its issues, especially when it comes to bytecode. I am not promising immediate fixes (it is a matter of prioritizing tasks), but we will keep this in mind :).