[Omake] Re: vmount problems

[malc]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, David K?gedal wrote:

> malc <malc at pulsesoft.com> writes:

[..snip..]

>>> From reading through the mail archives and looking at
> http://bugzilla.metaprl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557 it appears that it's
> impossible to use vmount without having to copy files to the build
> tree (I count symlinks as copies, as I want something that works
> equally well on windows).  Why is this so, given that make has the
> very similar vpath feature that doesn't require it?
>
> It might be that most users of omake rarely need to worry about this,
> but since I'm trying to find out if omake would be suitable as a make
> replacement for a rather largish project, where I need to build from
> several architectures from the same source tree, I would consider this
> a show-stopper.
>
> Is there maybe some discussion of this somewhere that I missed?

If there was a discussion i have missed it entirely. However i have
since rolled up my own OMake based build system that uses vmount
extensively and i think i have solved the ocamldep problem (at least
i don't hit any roadblocks in my projects)

The system is rather arcane, but it does the job for me. Here's an
example:

http://www.boblycat.org/~malc/imt/imt-0.97-omake.zip

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