[Caml-list] Re: installing caml-light

[Marco Maggesi <maggesi@math.unice.fr>]

On 2004-06-19, Michel Quercia <michel.quercia@prepas.org> wrote:
>
> There is a micmac in the src/runtime/config.h file. Comment out (or fix) the 
> definition of bcopy :
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #ifdef HAS_MEMMOVE
> #define bcopy(src,dst,len) memmove((dst), (src), (len))
> #else
> #ifdef HAS_BCOPY
> /* Nothing to do */
> #else
> #ifdef HAS_MEMCPY
> #define bcopy(src,dst,len) memcpy((dst), (src), (len))
> #else
> #define bcopy(src,dst,len) memmov((dst), (src), (len))
> #define USING_MEMMOV
> #endif
> #endif
> #endif
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Linux bcopy is already defined and the redefinition above triggers this 
> (strange) error when HAS_MEMMOVE is set.
>
> You will encounter another problem later when compiling libunix related to 
> errno which is a macro and no longer an external variable. The fix for this 
> is to remove all declarations "extern int errno" in libunix/*.c files and add 
> "#include <errno.h>" when not already present.



Thanks to everyone who replied to my message.

I was able to compile caml-light and use HOL-light following the above
suggestions.

Regarding HOL-light: I found an OCaml version of HOL-light

  http://www.math.pitt.edu/~thales/flyspeck/hol_light.tar.gz

from the page of the Flyspeck Project:

  http://www.math.pitt.edu/~thales/flyspeck/index.html

  -- Marco

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