From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9EAB37F890 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 03:32:06 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of berenger@riken.jp) identity=pra; client-ip=134.160.33.176; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="berenger@riken.jp"; x-sender="berenger@riken.jp"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of berenger@riken.jp designates 134.160.33.176 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=134.160.33.176; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="berenger@riken.jp"; x-sender="berenger@riken.jp"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of postmaster@postman.riken.jp designates 134.160.33.176 as permitted sender) identity=helo; client-ip=134.160.33.176; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="berenger@riken.jp"; x-sender="postmaster@postman.riken.jp"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnQBADmNM1OGoCGwnGdsb2JhbABZg0GsapZugTEOAQEBAQEGDQkJFCiCJQEBAQRuChELGAkEEgQLCQMCAQIBMxITBgIBAQ4Jh0oDEQ3JPwOHUheOeBaEIgEDiVCOfYEzknCBTQ X-IPAS-Result: AnQBADmNM1OGoCGwnGdsb2JhbABZg0GsapZugTEOAQEBAQEGDQkJFCiCJQEBAQRuChELGAkEEgQLCQMCAQIBMxITBgIBAQ4Jh0oDEQ3JPwOHUheOeBaEIgEDiVCOfYEzknCBTQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,739,1389740400"; d="scan'208";a="54262273" Received: from postman4.riken.jp (HELO postman.riken.jp) ([134.160.33.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Mar 2014 03:32:04 +0100 Received: from postman.riken.jp (postman4.riken.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postman.riken.jp (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CD398280C0 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:32:01 +0900 (JST) Received: from watson.prg.gsc.riken.jp (ipm04.gsc.riken.go.jp [134.160.83.74]) by postman.riken.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CDF907F8040 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:32:00 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <53338DA0.3070107@riken.jp> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:32:00 +0900 From: Francois Berenger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <532F8D40.4030007@riken.jp> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 6.0.0.2142326, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2014.3.27.22416 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Anybody interested in creating binary RPMs for each official release of the compiler? On 03/27/2014 01:57 AM, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote: > We just uploaded another solution to this problem : > > opam init --comp 4.01.0+bin-ocp > > It is a binary distribution of OCaml 4.01.0 ("ocp" stands for OCamlPro, as > it includes a small patch for relocation of the executables), working only > on Intel Linux for now (32 and 64 bits), so you will only pay the download > cost (about 65 MB), and not the compilation cost (you will still need to > compile the next packages that you will install, as it is only the OCaml > distribution). On most of our settings, downloading is much faster than > compiling. > > Once it is installed, it keeps the archive in a cache (in > ~/.opam/.ocp-compiler-cache/), so that creating other aliases from this > switch will only be the cost of decompressing the archive: > > opam switch 4.01.0-for-something-else --alias 4.01.0+bin-ocp > > Tell us if you meet any problem using it ! It looked neat, but: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.5 (Final) # ~/.opam/4.01.0+bin-ocp/bin/ocaml /localhome/ocaml/.opam/4.01.0+bin-ocp/bin/ocaml: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /localhome/ocaml/.opam/4.01.0+bin-ocp/bin/ocaml) > --Fabrice > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Francois Berenger wrote: > >> I'm always annoyed when I have to wait ~20mn to install OCaml on a machine. >> >> Nowadays, thanks to OPAM, I think only a compiler is needed to >> bootstrap quickly an OCaml environment for developers. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Francois Berenger. >> >> -- >> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: >> https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list >> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >> > > > -- Best regards, Francois Berenger.