Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot fails to build with ocaml 1.08

[Orion P. <or...@nw...>]

On 5/21/20 3:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:28:10PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> With the update from ocaml 1.05 to 1.08 plplot now fails to build:
> 
> 4.05 -> 4.08 ?

Sorry, ocaml-camlidl 1.05 -> 1.08 .  No ocaml change directly.


> 
>> [  4%] Generating plplot_core.idl, plplot_core.mli, plplot_core.ml,
>> plplot_core_stubs.c, plplot_core.h
>> cd /builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.15.0/fedora/bindings/ocaml &&
>> /usr/bin/cmake -E copy
>> /builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.15.0/bindings/ocaml/plplot_core.idl /builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.15.0/fedora/bindings/ocaml/plplot_core.idl
>> cd /builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.15.0/fedora/bindings/ocaml &&
>> /usr/bin/camlidl -I
>> /builddir/build/BUILD/plplot-5.15.0/bindings/ocaml -header
>> plplot_core.idl
>> File plplot_core.idl, line 369, column 13: Illegal character #
>>
>> This line is:
>>
>> RAW_ML(external plgriddata : float array -> float array -> float
>> array -> float array -> float array -> plplot_grid_method_type ->
>> float -> float array array = "ml_plgriddata_bytecode"
>> "ml_plgriddata")
>>
>> The macros involved are:
>>
>> #define QUOTEME(x) #x
>> #define RAW_ML(x) quote(mlmli, QUOTEME(x));
>>
>> Now, I know nothing about ocaml so I'm hoping Richard can clue us in
>> on what has changed.
> 
> I compiled plplot from git fine using OCaml 4.11 prerelease, so
> probably the easiest thing is to move to the latest git version.
> 
>    mkdir build
>    cd build
>    CFLAGS="%{optflags}" cmake .. -DENABLE_ocaml:BOOL=ON
>    make
> 
> Nothing has changed significantly under bindings/ocaml/ for a long
> time, so I don't know why specifically it works from git and not from
> the Fedora build.  Maybe one of the huge number of cmake flags?
> 
> Rich.
> 

I suspect without ocaml-camlidl-devel installed it won't build the above 
code.

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