Thank you for the replies. In type_class.ml and type_class.mli, I
replaced (*pp cpp $ARCH_FLAGS *) with (*pp gcc -E $ARCH_FLAGS *). The
compilation gets further but now fails with:...
ocamlfind ocamlc -package type-conv -c -I +camlp4 -for-pack Bin_prot
binable.ml
File "binable.ml", line 36, characters 21-46:
Unbound type constructor Type_class.writer


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Mark Shinwell
<mshinwell@janestcapital.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:22:09PM -0400, Markus Mottl wrote:
> > 2008/10/21 Ashish Agarwal <Ashish.Agarwal@yale.edu>:
> > > I am having trouble installing JaneStreet's Core library through godi.
> > > On Mac OS X, it fails while installing the prerequisite bin-prot:
> > > ...
> > >> ocamlfind ocamlc -package type-conv -c -pp "cpp $ARCH_FLAGS " -I
> +camlp4
> > >> type_class.mli
> > >> File "type_class.mli", line 93, characters 15-16:
> > >> Syntax error
> > > ...
> > > Line 93 of type_class.mli is:
> > > MK_BASE(unit)
> >
> > It's possible that the C-preprocessor works differently on Mac OS X.
> > I haven't investigated this yet, but would be grateful if anybody who
> > has set up Godi on a Mac could try to find a patch.
>
> There is something about the preprocessors on Mac OS X which causes cpp to
> behave differently from gcc -E; I've hit this before but can't remember the
> full explanation offhand.  You can see the difference, for example, if you
> try to use the ## operator.  Does everything work if you get everything
> to use gcc -E for preprocessing?
>
> Mark
>