Re: [Caml-list] ocamlfind: When using -syntax, the META variable 'preprocessor' must be set

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

I'm a bit surprised. Please, can you try to isolate the problem, and
send me a bug report?

Gerd

Am Sonntag, den 09.10.2011, 13:16 -0400 schrieb Ashish Agarwal:
> Thanks for all the responses. The problem turned out to be the simple
> one mentioned by Philippe. I just forgot to install PG'Ocaml. It would
> be nice if findlib could give error messages about missing packages
> that are clearly in the dependency list.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Christophe Papazian
> <christophe.papazian@gmail.com> wrote:
>         I got this problem a few days ago, and need a quick fix.
>         Everything was installed but after an upgrade I got the same
>         kind of error.
>         To avoid the problem, i drop the "-syntax" parameter and
>         replace it with "-pp" :
>         
>         What *should* work for me : ocamlfind ocamlc -package
>         js_of_ocaml -syntax camlp4o
>         What's *really* work for me : ocamlfind ocamlc -package
>         js_of_ocaml -pp "camlp4o -I /path/to/js_of_ocaml pa_js.cmo"
>         
>         Hope this help
>         
>          Christophe
>         
>         Le 9 oct. 11 à 00:46, Ashish Agarwal a écrit :
>         
>         
>         
>                 I get the error below after reinstalling OCaml with
>                 the latest version with GODI. My code has not changed,
>                 so I'm wondering if there is a change to ocamlbuild or
>                 ocamlfind that is causing this. The issue appears to
>                 be that -package camlp4 should be included in the
>                 ocamlfind command but it is not.
>                 
>                 The section "Does Findlib support camlp4" in the
>                 findlib User's Guide discusses the 'preprocessor'
>                 variable, but I can't figure out how exactly how to
>                 adjust my META file or whether I really need to since
>                 it was working before.
>                 
>                 ocamlbuild sequme.cma sequme.cmxa sequme.cmxs
>                 Finished, 0 targets (0 cached) in 00:00:00.
>                 + ocamlfind ocamldep -package batteries -package
>                 biocaml -package netclient -package netstring -package
>                 shell -package sqlite3 -syntax camlp4o -modules
>                 sequme/bowtie.mli > sequme/bowtie.mli.depends
>                 ocamlfind: When using -syntax, the META variable
>                 'preprocessor' must be set
>                 Command exited with code 2.
>                 
>                 --- META ---
>                 requires = "netstring shell netclient batteries
>                 biocaml pgocaml"
>                 version = "0.0"
>                 archive(byte) = "sequme.cma"
>                 archive(native) = "sequme.cmxa"
>                 
>         
>         
> 

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