Re: [Caml-list] Building a custom compiler environment

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:05 +1300, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> Well, I upgraded tools to 3.09.0, so that's one problem out of the way
> (though slightly annoying .. ah well).
> 
> Here's my latest error :-)
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/dst/kernel'
> ../ocaml/bin/ocamlc -output-obj -o bytekernel.o asm.mli keyboard.ml
> VFS.ml PCI.ml busManager.ml bytekernel.ml
> Error while linking /home/jonathan/dst/ocaml/lib/ocaml/stdlib.cma(Pervasives):
> Reference to undefined global `End_of_file'
> make[1]: *** [bytekernel.o] Error 2
> 
> Obviously, I've removed some code that defines this somewhere (hope I
> don't have to make too many changes to my custom environment). Any
> hints?

No, End_of_file is a predefined exception. Actually, you must not define
it, the compiler does it for you.

Look into typing/predef.ml to see all the predefined types and values.
(In byterun/fail.h there is a second, independent source of predefined
exceptions.)

Just a hypothesis: You do not have a reference to End_of_file at all,
and it is expunged from the global table because of this. Later the
compiler tries to add the code for the predefined exceptions, and cannot
find End_of_file any longer. - This may be total nonsense, however.

Gerd
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