From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA28804; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:25:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28759 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:25:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (hirsch.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.6]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g83GP2D26464; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:25:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with ESMTP id g83GP2I0017751 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT); Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:25:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with UUCP id g83GP1cN017749; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:25:01 +0200 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from localhost (oliver@localhost) by first.in-berlin.de (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00594; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:34:21 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:34:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Oliver Bandel To: Xavier Leroy cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "No bytecode specified" In-Reply-To: <20020903151652.B21723@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > OK, no answers, that has helped, > > so I now come with more details: > > At last, some technical data in a message of yours. You're (slowly) > improving. If you could just have posted this to caml-bugs@inria.fr > rather than caml-list, this would have been perfect :-) > > The cause of the problem is here: > > > readlink("/proc/self/exe", "[0303]:2916", 1024) = 11 Yes, I thought, that this was a problem. Looks very uncommon. > > I.e. /proc/self/exe does not point to the executable name, but to an > inode number. That must be a truly ancient Linux kernel that you're > running. (Pre 2.0 ?) Yes, 2.0.18 on this old machine. Updating? Hmhhh this old machine itself may be updated by a newer one (faster hardware). ;-) > > I'll harden the determination of the program name against this > problem. I once had used ocamlmktop, and I don' know if it was on my new computer or on this old machine. I think it was the old one, where it once worked, but I think it was Ocaml 3.01, that worked. Maybe in Ocaml 3.04 there were some changes... Somewhere in the strace-output I found "ptrace". I don't know a "ptrace" on linux-machines, but if I remember correctly, there is a ptrace on Solaris- machines. Maybe it's only a problem of the configure-script, which thinks to use tools, not available on common linux-distributions? > In the meantime, do yourself a favor and upgrade to a more > recent Linux kernel (and distribution?). Well, maybe this is a good idea. I may try it with a debian. But I'm not shure if new linux-distributions will work well on this old machine. It works. Not very fast, but still good enough for a lot of tasks. So, when updating the software means to have necessity of buying new hardware this is not, what I want... (not enough money this times, hope it will change soon). But I may try the new debian. :) Ciao, Oliver ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners