[Omake] Announcing OMake 0.9.8

Janne Hellsten jjhellst at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 01:49:54 PST 2006


Forgot to mention that the platform is Mac OS X/x86.

I tried to build the latest 0.9.8-1 version from the source package
directly, and that fails in a different way:

8<
*** omake: done (66.6 sec, 370/370 scans, 474/730 rules, 1200/2977
digests)
OMAKEFLAGS= OMAKEPATH=lib src/main/omake --dotomake .omake
--force-dotomake -j2 all
*** omake: reading OMakefiles
*** omake: finished reading OMakefiles (0.2 sec)
- build src/main omake.opt
+ ocamlopt.opt -warn-error A -w Aez -I . -I ../libmojave -I ../util -I
../magic -I ../ast -I ../ir -I ../env -I ../exec -I ../eval -I
../shell -I ../build -I ../builtin -o omake.opt unix.cmxa
../libmojave/lm.cmxa ../util/util.cmxa ../magic/magic.cmxa
../ast/ast.cmxa ../ir/ir.cmxa ../env/env.cmxa ../exec/exec.cmxa
../eval/eval.cmxa ../shell/shell.cmxa ../build/build.cmxa
../builtin/builtin.cmxa omake_shell.cmx omake_main.cmx ../clib/clib.a
-cclib -lncurses -cclib -lreadline
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined
symbols:[=============================================================================
 ] 01685 / 01691
_camlOmake_cache
_camlOmake_cache__code_begin
_camlOmake_cache__code_end
_camlOmake_cache__data_begin
_camlOmake_cache__data_end
_camlOmake_cache__entry
_camlOmake_cache__frametable
_camlOmake_cache__create_1844
_camlOmake_cache__exe_find_4007
_camlOmake_cache__exe_find_all_4014
_camlOmake_cache__listing_find_4000
_camlOmake_cache__ls_exe_path_4028
_camlOmake_cache__ls_path_4023
_camlOmake_cache__rehash_1845
_camlOmake_cache__reset_2795
_camlOmake_cache__stat_2896
_camlOmake_cache__add_3158
_camlOmake_cache__clear_1850
_camlOmake_cache__find_result_3826
_camlOmake_cache__find_result_sloppy_3834
_camlOmake_cache__from_channel_2788
_camlOmake_cache__stat_changed_2921
_camlOmake_cache__stat_set_2900
_camlOmake_cache__stat_table_2905
_camlOmake_cache__to_channel_2792
_camlOmake_cache__up_to_date_status_3816
_camlOmake_cache__exists_dir_2929
_camlOmake_cache__up_to_date_3810
_camlOmake_cache__is_dir_2891
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Error during linking
*** omake: 1685/1719 targets are up to date
*** omake: failed (32.9 sec, 367/381 scans, 233/769 rules, 612/2865 digests)
*** omake: targets were not rebuilt because of errors:
   src/main/omake.opt
make: *** [all] Error 2
8<

I am running OCaml 3.09.2.

Hope this helps,
Janne

On 12/12/06, Janne Hellsten <jjhellst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to update OMake from GODI but alas the build fails for some
> reason.  The error is here:
>
> 8<
> > + ocamlopt.opt -warn-error A -w Aez -I . -c Lm_set.ml
> > File "Lm_set.ml", line 1, characters 0-1:
> > Could not find the .cmi file for interface Lm_set.mli.
> > *** omake: 578/1502 targets are up to date
> > *** omake: failed (30.5 sec, 196/196 scans, 73/94 rules, 467/1168 digests)
> > *** omake: targets were not rebuilt because of errors:
> >    src/libmojave/Lm_set.cmx
> >       depends on: src/libmojave/Lm_set.ml
> >    src/libmojave/Lm_set.cmi
> >       depends on: src/libmojave/Lm_set.ml
> >    src/libmojave/Lm_set.o
> >       depends on: src/libmojave/Lm_set.ml
> 8<
>
> The full log is attached.
>
> Thanks,
> Janne
>
> On 12/12/06, Aleksey Nogin <nogin at metaprl.org> wrote:
> > We are proud to announce the latest release of the OMake Build System -
> > OMake 0.9.8.
> >
> > OMake 0.9.8 is a major feature enhancements and bugfixes release; it is
> > not fully backwards-compatible. The changes in this release include:
> >
> >  * The main change in this release is that the OMake values will now be
> >    converted into the shell command lines directly (all the previous
> >    versions of OMake should first "flatten" the value into a string and
> >    then perform sh-like parsing of the resulting string). In particular,
> >    this means that:
> >       + All the special symbols in files and directory values will be
> >         preserved.
> >       + All the spaces inside the array elements will be preserved.
> >       + All the special symbols in OMake-quoted values ($"..." and
> >         $'...') will be preserved.
> >       + If  the first element of the command line is a file value,
> >         neither PATH- nor alias-expansion will be performed. Note -
> >         there will also be no alias-expansion if the executable value
> >         contains quoted parts or starts with a \.
> >       + The Shell. aliases will now receive the values passed on the
> >         shell command line as is, not the string-expanded version. Also,
> >         if some of the arguments are the result of a glob-expansion, the
> >         alias function will receive the appropriate file values, not the
> >         strings.
> >       + OMake 0.9.8 will not be fully backwards-compatible with the
> >         earlier releases.
> >  * Major redesign of the OMake documentation (using Hevea).
> >       + The documentation is significantly expanded, examples added,
> >         bugs fixed.
> >       + There  are  now  a number of indices, including a index of
> >         variables, an index of functions, and an overall index.
> >  * OCaml.om improvements:
> >       + Implemented a new approach to computing the dependencies in
> >         OCaml projects in OMake. In this approach a special version of
> >         ocamldep  is used to only extract the list of the external
> >         modules a file depends on and then OMake is used to map those
> >         modules  to files in the include path. This eliminates the
> >         "standard" deficiency of having to generate all the relevant
> >         OCaml source files before ocamldep is called. This feature is
> >         considered highly expire mental and is disabled by default. Use
> >         the OCAMLDEP_MODULES_ENABLED variable to enable.
> >       + Added support for the Menhir parser-generator (experimental).
> >  * C.om improvements:
> >       + Changed the CProgram function to consider LIBS to be the actual
> >         library files (_without_ the extension) that need to be linked
> >         in.
> >       + Improved the C scanner rule on Windows.
> >  * LaTeX.om improvements:
> >       + BSTINPUTS environment variable joins TEXINPUTS and BIBINPUTS in
> >         the list of variables initialized from the OMake's TEXINPUTS
> >         variable.
> >       + The list of such variables is now configurable (TEXVARS variable
> >         contains an array of names).
> >  * More control over the OMake output and verbosity.
> >       + By default, OMake is now much more silent ("-S --progress" is
> >         enabled by default when it outputs to a terminal, and "-S" is
> >         enabled in all other cases).
> >       + Added a --verbose option that would make OMake very verbose,
> >         when needed.
> >       + Added an ability to postpone and/or repeat the rule execution
> >         output (so that, for example, only the output of the rules that
> >         fail is printed, or the output of the rules that failed is
> >         repeated at the end of the omake -k execution). This feature is
> >         somewhat experimental and might change in the future versions of
> >         OMake.
> >       + Added the -o option for better control of OMake verbosity.
> >  * Added three special .PHONY targets: .BUILD_BEGIN, .BUILD_SUCCESS, and
> >    .BUILD_FAILURE. .BUILD_BEGIN is built before anything else in your
> >    project. One of .BUILD_SUCCESS or .BUILD_FAILURE is built when the
> >    build for your project terminates.
> >    Note:
> >       + This feature is experimental and is likely to change in the
> >         future versions of OMake.
> >       + If you want to use these targets, you should probably add them
> >         to your ~/.omakerc, rather than adding them directly to each of
> >         the projects you work on.
> >  * OMake will now save the .omakedb periodically, preventing the state
> >    loss in case the OMake process dies unexpectedly (for example, when
> >    Cygwin kills OMake after user presses Ctrl-C). The checkpointing
> >    interval may be configured both at compile time and via the command
> >    line.
> >  * The variables such as $< and $@ in rules and % in implicit rules will
> >    no longer be expanded to strings; instead they will be passed as Node
> >    ("file") values.
> >  * Much better handling of the exit function, a number of bugs fixed.
> >  * Implicit  rules can no longer have target patterns referring to
> >    another directories.
> >  * New  functions:  Shell.ln-or-cp,  html-escaped, string-escaped,
> >    encode-uri, decode-uri, random, find-targets-in-path.
> >  * Added an ability to turn a string into an input channel. This allows,
> >    for example, to use an OMake variable as an input to built-in awk
> >    without having to write it to a temporary file first.
> >  * New flags added to built-in awk and grep.
> >  * A large number of other bug fixes and improvements.
> >
> > For more information on OMake, please visit the OMake Home Page at
> > http://omake.metaprl.org/
> >
> > Source and binary packages of OMake 0.9.8 may be downloaded from
> > http://omake.metaprl.org/download.html. In addition, OMake may be
> > obtained via the GODI packaging system.
> >
> > OMake 0.9.8 is still an alpha release. While we have made an effort
> > to ensure that it is bug-free, it is possible some functions may not
> > behave as you would expect. Please report any comments and/or bugs to
> > the mailing list omake at metaprl.org and/or at http://bugzilla.metaprl.org/
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