Re: Arguments to configure

2018-10-03 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Eric, First of all, many thanks for your prompt and precise response, warmly appreciated. Eric Blake (2018/10/02 10:40 -0500): > On 10/2/18 10:15 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Is there a way to add a new "directory category", in addition to bindir, > > libdir, etc.? >

Re: Arguemnts to configure

2018-10-03 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Many thanks for your response, Vivien! I agree environment variables can help, too, althought it's not my preferred way, but thanks for having mentionned them anyway! Sébastien. ___ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: Arguments for OCaml build configuration

2018-10-03 Thread SF Markus Elfring
> So far, the OCaml compiler is configured with a handwritten 'configure' > shell script which behaves a bit similarly to an autoconf-generated > script, but not completely. My current task is to replace this > handwritten shell script by an autoconf-generated one and to make it > possible to use t

Re: Arguments to configure

2018-10-03 Thread Vivien Kraus
Sébastien Hinderer writes: > > Coming to the directory I was talking about, it is currently called > "target-bindir" and is used to define where the bytecode interpreter, > ocamlrun, will reside on the target system. This is something the > compiler running on the host needs to know because it add

Re: Arguments to configure

2018-10-03 Thread Nick Bowler
Hello, Responding to part of your message... On 2018-10-03, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > In the same vein, I was wondering why the 'AC_SYS_INTERPRETER' macro > doesn't come in three variants, one for build, one for host and one for > target because I imagine that one may want to know whether #! i