> From: Jacques Garrigue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
> The .cmxa does not contain all the information from the .cmx, in
> particular not the inlining information. This is natural if you think
> of it: when you compile a module, you have no way to know in which
> library are its dependencies, so you can only look for .cmx's, not for
> .cmxa's. The .cmxa's are only used at link time.  You can still
> compile without the .cmx's, but you loose the optimizations.

After reading this on the caml-list, I realized that my -dev libraries
haven't been including .cmx files, nor do most of the other ocaml dev
libraries I have installed.  Shouldn't we change the packaging policy
to recommend their inclusion?

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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