Trying to install OCaml 3.12.1 on Linux with Godi - ocaml

I'm trying to install OCaml 3.12.1 on 64 bit Linux (Mint Linux which is essentially Ubuntu 11.04). I'm using the latest rocketboost (godi-rocketboost-20110717). I run ./bootstrap and after a while get the following (in bootstrap.log):
4287 ### Building godi-pcre
4288 ===> Cleaning for godi-pcre-6.2.2godi1
4289 => Checksum mismatch for pcre-ocaml-6.2.2.tar.gz.
4290 Make sure the Makefile and checksum file (/home/phil/godi-3.12.1/build/godi/ godi-pcre/distinfo)
4291 are up to date. If you want to override this check, type
4292 "godi_make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args]".
4293 Error: Exec error: File /home/phil/godi-3.12.1/build/godi/godi-pcre/./../../ mk/bsd.pkg.mk, line 1689: Command returned with non-zero exit code
4294 Error: Command fails with code 1: godi_console
Is this a package problem with pcre?
And how would I use the suggest "godi_make NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args]" to fix this?

This has been fixed by the maintainer of the pcre-ocaml library. It should work fine now.

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Problem with Ocaml and make: "Error: the file ____.cmxa is not a compilation unit description"

I'm running make in the top level of the UniMath directory and make keeps returning errors. I'm working on fedora 35 and I'm using Ocaml version 4.11.2.
Here is a print out of the errors
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rymndbkr/UniMath/sub/coq'
OCAMLBEST -o bin/coqdep_boot
File "_none_", line 1:
Error: tools/coqdep_boot.cmx is not a compilation unit description.
OCAMLBEST -o bin/ocamllibdep
File "_none_", line 1:
Error: tools/ocamllibdep.cmx is not a compilation unit description.
COQMKTOP -o bin/coqtop.opt
File "topbin/coqtop_bin.ml", line 11, characters 20-32:
11 | let drop_setup () = Mltop.remove ()
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Error: Unbound module Mltop
make[2]: *** [Makefile.build:422: bin/coqtop.opt] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rymndbkr/UniMath/sub/coq'
make[1]: *** [Makefile.make:178: submake] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/rymndbkr/UniMath/sub/coq'
Makefile:76: .coq_makefile_output.conf: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:247: sub/coq/bin/coq_makefile] Error 2
I'll describe the process I went through in hopes that it is reproducible. I was following the UniMath installation instructions on their github (https://github.com/UniMath/UniMath/blob/master/INSTALL.md). They did not have any installation instructions for fedora so I attempted to convert their Debian instructions. The main thing they wanted Debian users to do was run the command
sudo apt-get install build-essential git ocaml ocaml-nox ocaml-native-compilers camlp5 libgtk2.0 libgtksourceview2.0 liblablgtk-extras-ocaml-dev ocaml-findlib libnum-ocaml-dev emacs
To convert this, I made sure I had Ocaml version 4.11.2. I just followed the steps on Ocaml's site (https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html). There was a script which prompted me to modify ~/.bash_profile. I said yes. I also said yes when it prompted me to add a hook.
I also installed ocaml-num via the command dnf since this was required for later versions of ocaml.
I also installed #development-tools via dnf since another stack exchange post recommended it as the best fedora equivalent of build-essentials, the latter of which is part of the downloads for prepping a Debian computer for UniMath.
There are some things I did not mention that the UniMath site said to install to prep a Debian computer. I either had these things (or their equivalents installed) or could not figure out if they had equivalents.
I decided to just go ahead and try to finish the installation. I simply ran
git clone https://github.com/UniMath/UniMath
cd \UniMath
make BUILD_COQIDE=yes
It is on the last of these commands that the errors arose.
P.S. - Please let me know if there is information I should add to this question, or any way to improve it.
The error message not a compilation unit description is likely due to a mismatch between the Ocaml version that compiled the file and the one that is trying to read it.
You can use ocamlobjinfo to check that hypothesis.
A possible fix is to use make clean to reinitialize the state, and then rebuild it after ensuring that the environment is consistent with a call to eval $(opam env).

Makefile error raspberry-pi 3

I have an issue with Codelite compilation, running on raspbian jessie - these are the (known) steps I have taken to produce it.
First I installed Codelite with apt-get install Codelite, then produced a c++ project.
When running build project I get the error:
/bin/sh -c ' -j 4 -e -f Makefile'
/bin/sh: 1: -j: not found
0 errors, 0 warnings
I note that this error has been found and corrected previously, through running a different version of Codelite from 6.1.1 (that which apt-get installs). I therefore found the updated version of armhf .deb codelite from the rasbian archive with gdebi-gtk. However the updated version (9.1.1) produces the following error (install attempt with the graphical debian):
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libclang 1-3.8 (>=3.2)
I do not understand why the package manager cannot update these packages - do they not exist for the pi? I ran the manager as root, so I do not think it is a permissions issue.
EDIT 1:
Thank you for that Fabre. My Enviromental Variables file now looks like this:
CodeLiteDir=/usr/share/codelite
export MAKE=make
I still get the same error however.

autotools syntax error with ax_check_compile_flag

I am using autotools for building my C++ application. In my configure.ac I have the following line:
AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wall], [CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall"])
which causes the following error when executing ./configure (after running autoreconf -i):
./configure: line 3825: syntax error near unexpected token `-Wall,'
./configure: line 3825: `AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG(-Wall, CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall")'
My system: Linux web 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
On my Ubuntu machine it works well, why do I get this error?
autoreconf isn't magic (though I encounter package maintainers who obviously believe this). When you ran autoreconf, it failed to find the AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG macro, and produced a corrupt configure script. Usually that produces an error/diagnostic message at the same time.
'AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG` comes from the autoconf archive project, and Debian has a package which provides this, named autoconf-archive. Likely, you forgot to install it:
sudo apt-get install autoconf-archive

ocaml-glpk (glpk bindings) and OASIS

Preface: I am new to OCaml, OPAM, and OASIS.
tldr question: How do I properly set up a package with opam that is not already available in the repository (I can't just do opam install X)? More details follow:
I am trying to include ocaml-glpk in an OCaml project. I installed ocaml-glpk just by running make and make install as stated in the README, and the given example compiles and runs correctly. However, I am using OASIS to generate the build system of my project, and I am not sure how to set it up. I have the same example (renamed to glpkExample.ml in a src folder) and the following in my _oasis file:
Executable "glpkExample"
Path: src
MainIs: glpkExample.ml
CompiledObject: best
BuildDepends:
glpk
After running oasis setup -setup-update dynamic, I run make and get the following error:
ocaml setup.ml -build
Finished, 0 targets (0 cached) in 00:00:00.
+ /home/dimitrios/.opam/system/bin/ocamlfind ocamlopt -g -linkpkg -package glpk src/glpkExample.cmx -o src/glpkExample.native
File "_none_", line 1:
Error: Cannot find file /home/dimitrios/.opam/system/lib/glpk/glpk.cmxa
Command exited with code 2.
Compilation unsuccessful after building 4 targets (3 cached) in 00:00:00.
E: Failure("Command ''/usr/bin/ocamlbuild' src/glpkExample.native -tag debug' terminated with error code 10")
make: *** [build] Error 1
It seems the glpk library is missing a cmxa file needed to compile a native executable. I am not sure how to fix this. To compile glpkExample.ml correctly, my Makefile includes /home/dimitrios/.opam/system/lib/glpk and also uses the OCamlMakefile, which is extremely long and convoluted. Any help on setting this up with OASIS or how to get ocaml-glpk to work nicely with OASIS would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
This website is not appropriate for bug reports. You should really report it here.
The temporary solution is to use CompiledObject: byte to compile in bytecode.
If you're using opam then it is best to install application with it, not manually. Try to clean up your system and remove whatever you installed, and then do:
$ eval `opam config env`
$ opam install ocaml-glpk
Afterwards, if glpk is packaged in opam correctly, it should work with your setup, i.e., just with oasis's BuildDepends field and nothing more.

Protobuf 3.0.0-alpha-1 not compiling on windows

I'm trying to compile protobuf 3.0.0 alpha 1 on Windows using MinGW 4.9.2 & MSYS.
According to the instructions I'm supposed to:
./configure
make
make check
make install
I added --prefix=/c/path/to/mingw to configure (How to build Google's protobuf in Windows using MinGW?) but it didnt help.
It fails at make with the message:
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /home/Markus/protobuf-3.0.0-alpha-
1/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4
/home/Markus/protobuf-3.0.0-alpha-1/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.14: command not
found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
<http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127
I've tried installing Automake but it doesnt come with aclocal.
Also today at work i managed to get it working on the first try with a bare MinGW & MSYS.
It looks like you need to install autoconf (which is separate from automake, though they are often used together). You may also need to install libtool.