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> Good luck writing Makefiles for OCaml

So what's the problem exactly? https://mmottl.github.io/ocaml-makefile/

Oh look, it even builds a project faster than Dune: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/dune-build-vs-makefile/11394



> So what's the problem exactly?

They all have the samé problem: that you don't know the name (or even the number) of modules (module files) being generated without reading the source. And as a bonus every compiler uses a sligthly different naming scheme for the generated module file (this is of course no problem for OCaml ;).

As an example (using Fortran). File `test.f90`:

   module first

   contains

    subroutine hello ()
    end subroutine hello

  end module first

  module second

  contains

    subroutine world ()
    end subroutine world

  end module second

`gfortran -c test.f90` yields the following files (2 of them are modules):

  -rw-r--r--    1 roland  staff    221 Sep 21 19:07 first.mod
  -rw-r--r--    1 roland  staff    225 Sep 21 19:07 second.mod
  -rw-r--r--    1 roland  staff    185 Sep 21 19:07 test.f90
  -rw-r--r--    1 roland  staff    672 Sep 21 19:08 test.o




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