Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Batteries 2.1

[Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com>]

2013/07/21, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> I don't think Batteries needs bisect to compile -- I regularly build
> Batteries on systems without bisect. That should be an optional
> dependency (using for testing and development purposes), but it's
> fairly possible that the buildsystem displays a not-nice warning when
> it's missing that you considered an error.

It's not only a "not-nice warning",
nothing is build at all.

$ make
Build mode: shared
ocamlbuild -no-links src/batteries.cma src/batteriesHelp.cmo
src/batteriesThread.cma META src/batteries.cmxs
src/batteriesThread.cmxs
ocamlfind: Package `bisect' not found
''ocamlfind ocamldep -package bigarray,num,str -modules
src/batInnerPervasives.ml > src/batInnerPervasives.ml.depends
Exit code 127 while executing this command:
  ''ocamlfind ocamldep -package bigarray,num,str -modules
src/batInnerPervasives.ml > src/batInnerPervasives.ml.depends
Makefile:71: recipe for target `all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 127


$ tree -fi | grep 'cmi$'
# there is nothing
$ tree -fi | grep 'cmo$'
# there is nothing
$ tree -fi | grep 'cmx$'
./_build/myocamlbuild.cmx
$ tree -fi | grep 'cma$'
# there is nothing
$ tree -fi | grep 'cmxa$'
# there is nothing


If the upstreams don't have a MS/Windows test environment, I'm
volunteer for "minimal reports": I mean whenever they want they can
send me a snapshot (or a link to it, or scm or whatever), I run `make`
and send them back the error message.

I can compile it myself I really don't mind, but doing this way is not
very wellcoming for beginners.

-- 
Regards