Re: [Caml-list] build problem with 3.12.0; no ocamlrun in /usr/local/bin

[Andrew Psaltis <ampsaltis@gmail.com>]

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On 2011-06-27 16:39, derek.schutt@colostate.edu wrote:
> Hi, I'm a new user of ocaml, and having some difficulties that are probably due
> to my own ignorance.   Namely, ocamlrun doesn't seem to get produced when I
> compile the code.
> 
> I've downloaded and tried to compile ocaml 3.12.0 on a 64-bit linux system
> (Fedora 14, kernel 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64).	make world and make bootstrap
> seem to work fine; here's the last bit of output from 'make bootstrap'.
> 
> make compare
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/ocaml-3.12.0'
> Fixpoint reached, bootstrap succeeded.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ocaml-3.12.0'
> 
> However, if I type 'ocaml', I get this response: 
> bash: /usr/local/bin/ocaml: /usr/local/bin/ocamlrun: bad interpreter: No such
> file or directory
> 
> This is no surprise, because only ocaml and ocamlc are installed in
> /usr/local/bin.  As far as I can tell, ocamlrun is never created, nor are many
> of the executable files listed in the INSTALL document, ocamlrun, ocamlyacc,
> ocamllex, etc.
> 
> The output from 'configure' says these should be installed in /usr/local/bin: 
> 
> Directories where Objective Caml will be installed:
> 	binaries.................. /usr/local/bin
> 	standard library.......... /usr/local/lib/ocaml
> 	manual pages.............. /usr/local/man (with extension .1)
> 
> Can anyone help me?  I have to say I can't quite figure out what to try next.  
> Thanks for your help.
> 

If you just want to skip compiling ocaml, you can install ocaml from the
Fedora repositories.  A simple

yum install ocaml

as root should do it.  There also are a large number of ocaml libraries
available in the repositories.  Check them out with

yum search ocaml

~Andrew


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