Re: [Caml-list] opam package problem - can't install easy-format

["Ömer Sinan Ağacan" <omeragacan@gmail.com>]

Thanks for quick response.

> It's likely that you don't have the latest version of OPAM (0.9.3), since
> patch handling was changed to make it more robust.  Do also let us know
> the compiler version you are running with in the bug report.

You're right. I was still using a beta version of it even though I run
`opam upgrade`. Now I installed 0.9.3 and installation worked fine.

Thanks again.

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2013/2/22 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:
> We'd appreciate it if you opened an issue up on:
> http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository
>
> It's likely that you don't have the latest version of OPAM (0.9.3), since
> patch handling was changed to make it more robust.  Do also let us know
> the compiler version you are running with in the bug report.
>
> The easy_format package does successfully build on Linux x86_64/ocaml4
> in our autobuilder:
>
> =-=-= Installing easy-format.1.0.1 =-=-=
> Downloading
> http://opam.ocamlpro.com/archives/easy-format.1.0.1+opam.tar.gz
> .
> Extracting /x/pkg_opro_remote_all4/compiler_system4-packages_easy-format/archives/easy-format.1.0.1+opam.tar.gz.
> Applying easy-format-make.diff.
> patching file Makefile
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 6 with fuzz 1.
> Applying meta-tpl.diff.
> patching file META.tpl
> Building easy-format.1.0.1:
>   make
>   make install
> ocamlc -c easy_format.mli
> ocamlc -c -dtypes easy_format.ml
> ocamlmklib -o easy_format easy_format.cmo
> touch bytecode
> ocamlc -c easy_format.mli
> ocamlopt -c -dtypes easy_format.ml
> ocamlmklib -o easy_format easy_format.cmx
> ocamlopt -I . -shared -linkall -o easy_format.cmxs easy_format.cmx
> touch nativecode
> echo "version = \"1.0.1\"" > META; cat META.tpl >> META
>
> (etc)
>
> On 22 Feb 2013, at 11:41, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry if I'm posting this to wrong mailing list ( do we have an opam
>> specific list ? )
>>
>> I'm trying to install merlin package and it has easy-format as a dependency.
>>
>> I'm using an up-to-date version of opam(just run `opam upgrade` few
>> minutes ago). Here is the output:
>>
>>    ➜  ~  opam install easy-format
>>    The following actions will be performed:
>>     - install easy-format.1.0.1
>>    1 to install | 0 to reinstall | 0 to upgrade | 0 to downgrade | 0 to remove
>>
>>    =-=-= easy-format.1.0.1 =-=-=
>>    The archive for easy-format.1.0.1 is in the local cache.
>>    Extracting /home/omer/.opam/archives/easy-format.1.0.1+opam.tar.gz.
>>    Applying easy-format-make.diff.
>>
>>    [ERROR] while installing easy-format.1.0.1
>>      Application of patch
>> /home/omer/.opam/system/build/easy-format.1.0.1/easy-format-make.diff
>> failed, can not determine the '-p' level to patch.
>>      'opam install easy-format' failed.
>>
>> Can anyone help ?
>>
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