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From: Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu@nerim.net>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange, occasional build failure with ocamlmklib /  ranlib
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:53:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <95513600906020753x32538883g9c520718e2b5f2b7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090602144627.GA20574@annexia.org>

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 16:46, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> I just want to post this here in case it rings a bell with anyone:
>
> ocamlfind ocamlc -c guestfs.mli
> ocamlfind ocamlc -c guestfs.ml
> ocamlfind ocamlopt -c guestfs.ml
> ocamlmklib -o mlguestfs guestfs_c.o guestfs_c_actions.o guestfs.cmo
> -L../src/.libs -lguestfs
> ocamlmklib -o mlguestfs guestfs_c.o guestfs_c_actions.o guestfs.cmx
> -L../src/.libs -lguestfs
> ranlib: './libmlguestfs.a': No such file
>
> There's no other error visible.
>
> The error is intermittent, and fairly rare.  Usually if we just run
> the build again it succeeds.
>
> We've seen the same bug happening on 3.09.3 and on 3.11.1+rc0.
>
> There are more detailed build logs here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502309
>
> Anyone got any ideas at all?

Is it a parallel make ? If so, the concurrent ocamlmklib are probably
stepping on each other's toes ...
You could try either calling ocamlklib once, or 3 times (with the .o,
the .cmo and the .cmx);

-- 
  Olivier


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-02 14:46 Richard Jones
2009-06-02 14:52 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2009-06-02 14:53 ` Olivier Andrieu [this message]
2009-06-02 14:53 ` Martin Jambon

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