[LLVMdev] OCAML and ocamldoc requirements on building andinstalling LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:

>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Aaron
>> Gray<aaronngray.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> LLVM seems to be now dependant by default on OCAML and ocamldoc.  
>>> Can you
>>> please change this so OCAML is only built and enabled when an
>>> '--enable-ocaml' flag is set on 'configure'. As I cannot do 'make
>>> install'
>>> on Cygwin as ocamldoc is not availiable on Cygwin. Also really 95%  
>>> of
>>> LLVM
>>> users are not either going to have ocaml installed or are going to  
>>> be
>>> using
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Could you please atand to this within a week or so as I have to do  
>>> Cygwin
>>> testing for the 2.6 release.
>>>
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Would you be able to come up with a patch that does this? This would
>> help matters, because you run Cygwin, and would be the best person to
>> know if the patch works or not.
>
> Bill,
>
> Really its not only a Cygwin patch, its a patch for anyone who does  
> not want
> to have to install OCAML and its documentation tool in order to use  
> LLVM.
> Its really just a matter of adding a switch to configure and  
> conditionally
> building ocaml stuff based on its setting. I really hate the bash  
> configure
> script and really dont want to do it. Really it should be on the OCAML
> writers list of finishing things to do out of courtesy for other  
> users.

Aaron, I don't have ocaml installed and llvm builds fine for me.

-Chris