From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84354BC0A for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:14:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.141]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBJ4EfuP026798 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:14:43 +0100 Received: from ppp14-213.lns2.syd7.internode.on.net (HELO rosella) ([59.167.14.213]) by ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 19 Dec 2006 14:43:51 +1030 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.12,186,1165152600"; d="scan'208"; a="62228244:sNHT4633437872" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Debian or Ububtu (reprise) From: skaller To: Erik de Castro Lopo Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20061219094922.bc63df4b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> References: <20061218002708.GA16314@apotheon.com> <20061218195207.GK21840@patate.is-a-geek.org> <20061218212858.GB7742@furbychan.cocan.org> <87k60o98d3.fsf@linux-france.org> <20061218222049.GA27752@furbychan.cocan.org> <20061219094922.bc63df4b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:13:49 +1100 Message-Id: <1166501629.11647.76.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 45876731.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 bug:01 ocaml:01 tarball:01 cvs:01 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 python:02 debian:03 debian:03 repository:04 erik:04 fix:04 On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:49 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Richard Jones wrote: > > > No. It's not a bug in Ubuntu, so much as a problem that they seem to > > have exported an incorrect mix of packages, probably during one of > > Debian-ocaml-maint's "upgrade the whole world" exercises between > > 3.09.1 and 3.09.2. In any case you can fix the issue by upgrading to > > the current testing version (Feisty). > > Damn I just upgraded my laptop from Dapper to Edgy [0] to get some updated > Python libraries. I haven't done much Ocaml since the upgrade but if is > as broken as you say I might well switch back to Debian. Just download the Ocaml tarball and build it yourself. Or even better -- build directly from the CVS repository. Ocaml builds 'out of the box': very nice job from Inria there considering it is double bootstraps! -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net