From: "Mark Shinwell" <mshinwell@janestcapital.com>
To: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
Cc: Ashish Agarwal <Ashish.Agarwal@yale.edu>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] problem installing janestreet core through godi
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:16:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022081635.GU14123@janestcapital.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8560b80810211322p54f80ea3sde1484ca9ed56ab8@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:22:09PM -0400, Markus Mottl wrote:
> 2008/10/21 Ashish Agarwal <Ashish.Agarwal@yale.edu>:
> > I am having trouble installing JaneStreet's Core library through godi.
> > On Mac OS X, it fails while installing the prerequisite bin-prot:
> > ...
> >> ocamlfind ocamlc -package type-conv -c -pp "cpp $ARCH_FLAGS " -I +camlp4
> >> type_class.mli
> >> File "type_class.mli", line 93, characters 15-16:
> >> Syntax error
> > ...
> > Line 93 of type_class.mli is:
> > MK_BASE(unit)
>
> It's possible that the C-preprocessor works differently on Mac OS X.
> I haven't investigated this yet, but would be grateful if anybody who
> has set up Godi on a Mac could try to find a patch.
There is something about the preprocessors on Mac OS X which causes cpp to
behave differently from gcc -E; I've hit this before but can't remember the
full explanation offhand. You can see the difference, for example, if you
try to use the ## operator. Does everything work if you get everything
to use gcc -E for preprocessing?
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 18:34 Ashish Agarwal
2008-10-21 20:22 ` [Caml-list] " Markus Mottl
2008-10-22 8:16 ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2008-10-22 13:08 ` Ashish Agarwal
2008-10-22 13:52 ` Markus Mottl
2008-10-22 17:57 ` Nobuyuki TOMIZAWA
[not found] ` <d8be5ae20810221134q171e27bat67328196849526e2@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-22 18:34 ` Fwd: " Ashish Agarwal
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