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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53DD57EC10 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:48:31 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAMpd40+uedqy/2dsb2JhbABFtVOBB4IYAQEEATo/BQsLRlcGiBkFuiWQa2ADiEaSOoorgn8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,452,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="148394955" Received: from pse.psellos.com ([174.121.218.178]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 21 Jun 2012 19:48:30 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.36] (173-160-176-66-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.160.176.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by pse.psellos.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q5LHmIgK022494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:48:21 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1280) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Jeffrey Scofield In-Reply-To: <20120621075753.GA21707@annexia.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:48:18 -0700 Cc: Jeffrey Scofield , Caml List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <684FEB5F-35BA-4227-8E54-C79AC770D12E@psellos.com> References: <20120620074533.GA5827@annexia.org> <9BD38C00-4929-40A6-B13E-AC5403F998D8@psellos.com> <20120621075753.GA21707@annexia.org> To: "Richard W.M. Jones" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1280) X-Validation-by: jeffsco@psellos.com Subject: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml on Amazon EC2 Instance Hi Rich, > RHEL itself includes OCaml, so it's normal for EPEL not to > have OCaml, but to have several additional libraries for OCaml. It seems a little tricky since OCaml is in the Optional Channel of RHEL. (I'm not sure how it all fits together, maybe this isn't quite the right way to describe it.) Perhaps this makes things difficult for other releases that are trying to use EPEL (like Amazon Linux). The EPEL page seems to say it's supposed to work with other Linux variants. There's some evidence that CentOS has solved the problem (by supporting OCaml packages directly in their base release). This suggests that Amazon Linux is the odd one out. I'll try to send Amazon a feature request for OCaml, if I can figure out how. But it would also be cool if EPEL decided to support OCaml directly. If they're really independent of RHEL, seems like they maybe should. > It sounds to me as if "Amazon Linux" is broken, or you need > to enable something. While googling I saw a few other "Amazon Linux" users who were looking for packages that seem to have fallen through the cracks. > One thing you might try is looking in /etc/yum.repos.d and > see if anything is "enabled=0" which should be "enabled=1". Thanks; this is something I thought to try. It didn't make any difference for OCaml support. Thanks again for the help. Jeffrey Seattle WA