From: Ed Keith <e_d_k@yahoo.com>
To: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unable to reach fixpoint building ocaml 3.11.2 on cygwin
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:10:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <753647.36081.qm@web58906.mail.re1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5F45C1.60201@frisch.fr>
--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr> wrote:
> From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unable to reach fixpoint building ocaml 3.11.2 on cygwin
> To: "Ed Keith" <e_d_k@yahoo.com>
> Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:42 PM
> On 26/01/2010 16:19, Ed Keith wrote:
> > I am trying to build ocaml 3.112 on cygwin. Make world
> seems to work fine, but when I make bootstrap I do not get
> any errors, but I get the following message:
>
> COFF/PE files (Windows' objects and executables) contain a
> timestamp. Bootstrapping will reach a fixpoint only modulo
> the timestamp. You can see in Makefile.nt (used by MSVC and
> Mingw ports, not Cygwin) that comparison is done by
> discarding the first 4096 bytes.
>
> Btw, these timestamps force useless commands with build
> tools that rely on file contents (like ocamlbuild or omake).
> LexiFi's version of ocamlopt resets the timestamp on files
> that it produces so as to avoid this problem.
>
>
> Alain
>
>
Thank you for the explanation.
-EdK
Ed Keith
e_d_k@yahoo.com
Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-26 15:19 Ed Keith
2010-01-26 15:42 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2010-01-26 19:00 ` Ed Keith
2010-01-26 19:22 ` rixed
2010-01-26 19:36 ` Ed Keith
2010-01-26 19:42 ` Alain Frisch
2010-01-26 20:10 ` Ed Keith [this message]
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