David Allsopp

It's not clear to me from the esy issue you cite - are you simply offended that the process tree is deep, or does it actually cause an issue? The...

There is a noise to displaying URLs all the time, though - the error identifier is the information, not the URL to find out more. I played around with this...

That's weird - I most definitely authored a long comment complete a check-list of required changes several days ago... which somewhat spectacularly appears not to have been saved by GitHub...!...

I'm just updating this. Can I check I understand the bootstrap process properly: 1. You build *and install* ocamlbuild using the "normal" procedure (i.e. you make an existing ocamlbuild) 2....

OK, somewhat violating my "don't do work just before a concert" rule, I have just figured out a small patch which allows the bootstrap to work. I'll tidy it up...

Hmm, I tried that before - it doesn't seem to work? ``` dra@bionic:~/ocamlbuild-master/bootstrap$ OCAMLBUILD=../ocamlbuild.native make make -C .. clean make[1]: Entering directory '/home/dra/ocamlbuild-master' rm -f src/lexers.ml rm -f src/glob_lexer.ml make...

#347 brings CI for MSVC - I think that although `Makefile.config` still contains backslashes, the quoted-strings part from this PR extracted in #329 means everything's fixed?

Just a very brief note that my patches for relocation in the _compiler_ approach the absolute path problem for `ld.conf` (which is related to findlib's search for `findlib.conf`) by using...

This is not the correct approach - `ocamlfind` on Windows _should_ emit `\r\n` because it's a Windows program (emitting Unix line-endings does actually cause problems for native Windows shell utilities...

6 years later, the quoting concerns for backticks are somewhat less of a concern - I think the intersection of "has a C11 compiler and can therefore build OCaml 5.x"...