Can't build OCaml with esy

texastoland · 2019-02-06 04:37:06 UTC

I’ve been trying to test drive esy but I can’t even get [any version of] OCaml to build successfully. Can anyone help??

andreypopp · 2019-02-06 07:44:39 UTC

I’m not sure why it doesn’t build on your system but there’s a bug in ocaml’s Makefile which was fixed just recently — https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/925c7dcf20b563709b2a42666a1f1b1dc7d42bf6

I will release a new version of ocaml which do not do make clean at the end of the build. This should make it build.

andreypopp · 2019-02-06 08:45:05 UTC

Please try 4.6.10, 4.7.1004

jordwalke · 2019-02-06 10:48:33 UTC

Also, update your esy:

npm remove -g esy
npm install -g esy

I will be updating hello-reason to have a lockfile for the latest esy.

texastoland · 2019-02-06 16:30:09 UTC

That bug was exactly it. At the end my build was trying to delete /Library (/*~) which it obviously couldn’t because permissions. Both new releases WFM Where could we document (I can try to PR) the way esy-OCaml version numbering works (issue)? I get it now but I really had to dig to grok it. E.g. as a new user if I were to naively write "ocaml": "4.7.1" (or any tag without a range) I’d be back to this error right?