Re: [Caml-list] Current SVN head and findlib.

[Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>]

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2012/4/12 Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>

> Le 12/04/2012 14:30, Philippe Veber a écrit :
> > While playing with the upcoming features of our favorite compiler, I
> > found that the current trunk and version/4.00 branch do not work well
> > with findlib (version 1.2.8). I report it here so others might confirm
> > (or not) what I say.
> >
> >         OCaml version 4.01.0+dev1_2012-03-31
> >
> > # #use "topfind";;
> > - : unit = ()
> > File "/home/pveber/usr/ocamlbrew/ocaml-svn/trunk/lib/ocaml/topfind",
> > line 37, characters 0-22:
> > Error: Unbound module Topfind
> >
> > What is really surprising is that the toplevel doesn't complain if I
> > copy/paste the contents of topfind directly in the compiler:
> > [...]
>
> It works if you execute (replace /usr/lib/ocaml by `ocamlc -where`)
>
>  #directory "/usr/lib/ocaml/findlib";;
>
> before calling
>
>  #use "topfind";;
>
Indeed, it works fine with that trick. Thanks !


>
> The #directory is present in /usr/lib/ocaml/topfind, but it seems that
> now, they don't have immediate effect.
>
Yes, that is a really surprising issue for me.

Thanks again,
  ph.

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