[Caml-list] mysterious cgi problem

[Eliot Handelman <eliot@colba.net>]

Hi list,

We have a demo coming up on Monday of an ocaml based music analysis and 
generation system with a
web component for music notation that, irritatingly, has stopped 
working. The interface is a CGI
with an ocaml 4.01 executable. After several harrowing days I narrowed 
the problem down to the
following situation:

X, a basic system, runs fine in firefox/chrome/various linuxen

X + module Y  generates "Not_found" exceptions in the CGI merely by 
linking Y. Y is
otherwise not invoked.  Moreover, I'm unable to trap the exception in 
the CGI itself
(ie, a try/with around the main function is somehow bypassed as the 
apache error long reports).  So
it would seem the that the code fails before the main function is executed.

We were using ocamlnet, but I rolled my own cgi parser and reproduced 
the problem.

Any suggestions? My next step would be to start rolling back the system, 
which is
not pleasant.


thanks,

-- eliot