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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A202F7EC10 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:12:40 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjQCAAME4k/RVaG2kGdsb2JhbABFpHeQUQgiAQEBAQkJDQcUBCOCGAEBAQQLBwIXFQEbEgsBAwwGBQsDCg0hIgEMAQQBBQEDAQYSBhMSEIVvgWsBAQILC5pACQOMIQmCZ4VJChkEChkDCleIcQEFDIsihhsDiEaMZIEShT6HVD5Dg1mBQQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,445,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="163761748" Received: from mail-gg0-f182.google.com ([209.85.161.182]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-MD5; 20 Jun 2012 19:12:30 +0200 Received: by ggnm2 with SMTP id m2so8613939ggn.27 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:12:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=75EH7Afj/xRcW5+VUjYdkuvnbJT32O45hdtWjiu+s7w=; b=tOrtYVncbdaF/5IBYiJ/bfANRuZ55VK1fJUcA+68mAhiWXG0MsapkQJydzhT0zl6v/ fyW19WjjsmShS9FHqPxA2zdVSx8wCDnGZFFQ1yTNddXjwey7xWFcMQph/WyUlEzuVpdd 8vUIsWQ8J5kOQl1AO21/BQEiGR16w3oG/s9A/ALz7IztfGrn0WjLVX7aMWZRtzssOZL+ KW7aR6FKfQO4rI7TfMOfiAHOrxt7ZfvQt7KEPSkKRH4B8rQQ5a/ss1t5YUGkIPifwc6v Xh6qt5UGuuPh4lgI1v607IO3EkF3lIVcLOf34Fdgc7qjOy3ux6QfASxwBdnDJY7fSB1Z L5Cg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.181.229 with SMTP id l65mr27976019yhm.116.1340212349525; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:12:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.193.5 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:12:29 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: romerun@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <9BD38C00-4929-40A6-B13E-AC5403F998D8@psellos.com> References: <20120620074533.GA5827@annexia.org> <9BD38C00-4929-40A6-B13E-AC5403F998D8@psellos.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:12:29 -0500 Message-ID: From: Komtanoo Pinpimai To: Jeffrey Scofield Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" , Caml List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Amazon EC2 Instance try those ubuntu images, I've been using them for a while, pretty recent ocaml & libs in apt repo. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Scofield wr= ote: > Hi Rich, > >> I'm not clear what "Amazon Linux" is, but RHEL 5 and up and all >> derivatives should have an 'ocaml' package in the base distribution, >> and a small collection of libraries. =A0In RHEL 6 (and forthcoming >> RHEL 7) they are all in the "Optional" channel. > > When I create a new EC2 instance, I get a menu of machine image > options. =A0I've been taking the top one because it's marked as fitting > inside the "Free Tier": > > =A0 =A0Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 > > =A0 =A0The Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 is an EBS-backed, PV-GRUB image. It > =A0 =A0includes Linux 3.2, AWS tools, and repository access to multiple > =A0 =A0versions of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, and Tomcat. =A0Root > =A0 =A0Device Size: 8 GB > > So, this is what I mean by "Amazon Linux". =A0Other than what it says > above I don't know what it is, either. > > As far as I can see, there's no OCaml package in its default > repositories. > > However, it also includes configuration info for EPEL 6, disabled by > default. =A0I enabled the EPEL repository and was really hoping OCaml > would be in there. =A0There are quite a few OCaml libraries in the EPEL > repository, but OCaml itself isn't there. > > I don't really know anything about EPEL, but I thought maybe there > was an additional repository I could add to get OCaml support. =A0It > seems tantalizingly close to working. > > While googling I read about the Optional channel of Red Hat. =A0As > far as I can determine, this is part of RHN, a subscriber service. > Is this right? > > It would definitely be worth some money to get good OCaml support on > Linux, but at the moment I'm just running some cloud computing > feasibility studies and am looking to go on the cheap side. > > At any rate, the trick may be to choose a machine image from > further down the list! =A0(I did get OCaml working by using > packages from CentOS 6.2, as I wrote in another message.) > > Thanks for the help. > > Jeffrey > > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. =A0Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > --=20 In accordance with U.S. Treasury regulations, if this message contains advice concerning one or more Federal tax issues, it is not a formal legal opinion and may not be used by any person for the avoidance of Federal tax penalties.