fptools/libraries/OpenGL/specs/enumerant/Makefile

[Sven Panne]

Ian Lynagh wrote:
 > [...] (The reason I noticed this is that building with profiling and
 > OpenGL without the profiling libraries installed fails when it tries
 > to use the installed compiler to compile the profiling version
 > (should this even happen?). It compiles fine with the above change
 > reverted).

In a nutshell: fptool/libraries/OpenGL/Makefile doesn't descend into
the spec subdir anymore (since rev. 1.24), so this is a problem of the
past...

Long story: Originally I planned to generate the lowest level of the
OpenGL binding (data types, foreign imports + some trivial marshaling)
automatically from the OpenGL .spec files, but this turned out to be
infeasible:

* The hard parts are getting the user API "right" and writing useful
   documentation, which both turned out to be cumbersome with an
   automated process.

* The .spec files' typing is much better than the one found in
   OpenGL's C binding, but still too weak for Haskell.

* Getting the Makefiles right seemed to be extremely difficult (as you
   have already experienced :-), probably it could have been done by
   moving the .spec file converters out of the OpenGL subdir.

Cheers,
    S.