[Mediawiki-l] ocaml and tex problem

[Martin Jambon]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, judi chen wrote:

> Hi,
> I tried to install ocaml and then do make at /math
> directory
>
> but I got the following error msg when I tried to do
> make
>
> [root at localhost math]# make
> ocamlopt -c util.ml
> make: ocamlopt: Command not found
> make: *** [util.cmx] Error 127
> [root at localhost math]# ocamlopt
> bash: ocamlopt: command not found
>
>
> ocaml seems to be installed but no ocamlopt
>
> any suggestion?

That's unusual. If you are using Linux, reinstall it using the rpm or deb 
which comes with your distro. Otherwise you can build it from source, in 
which case don't forget to build ocamlopt (the native code compiler) with 
the 'make opt' command.

Alternatively, if ocamlc is installed and working, you can try this (not 
tested):

make texvc.bc      # builds the bytecode version of texvc
cp texvc.bc texvc  # rename it

That should make bytecode (ocamlc) instead of native code (ocamlopt). I 
don't think it makes any difference in this context, except that the 
native code compilation generates a standalone executable whereas the 
bytecode requires the virtual machine to be installed (ocamlrun included 
in the ocaml package).


Martin

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