Re: [Caml-list] Compile 4.01 on debian

[Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@gmail.com>]

Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> writes:

> On 14/09/13 17:59, Philip wrote:
>> Hi list, just pulled ocaml from git and made:
>>
>> ./configure make world.opt
>>
>> and got an error:
>>
>> Error: Files utils/ccomp.cmo and utils/misc.cmo make inconsistent
>> assumptions over interface List
>
> Sounds like you "git pull"-ed over an old working copy containing
> leftover compiled files from an earlier version of OCaml.
> "make clean" is strongly advised.
>
> (And, as others said, if you're tracking the OCaml trunk, it's at your
> own risks.)

What I do usually in such situations when "make clean" does not cleanup
everything, or some files clobber ocamlbuild hygiene conditions, is to
just use very useful git command to remember:

# git clean -dxf

this will give you a fresh repository pointing to git revision, but not
containing any intermediate files, which may affect the build.

Again, as others say, use it on your own risk, you can easily delete
some important files to you. More over the build takes significant time.
But in the end it will give you always clean repository, but you have to
reconfigure/rebuild it again yourself!

Thanks,
 Wojciech