John Skaller
John Skaller
FYI: there are lots of options other than opam. For example with Debian you can apt-get ocaml-nox. You can also build the 4.14 branch of the repo. I personally had...
Opam should work. I'm on MacOS and it used to be fine. However when I try to get other packages it refuses and thats actually the packages being out of...
I have no idea how to stuff around with Docker or AppImages (never even heard of that). That's just one more layer of idiot dependencies I am trying to avoid....
ok i'm building Ocaml from trunk now.
> Will updating the Felix sources to be compatible with OCaml 5 break compatibility with OCaml 4? No idea. Possibly. Felix doesn't require any C modules in Ocaml, but the...
Nothing to do with Ocaml by the look of it. That's an error in Felix building the compiler driver flx, which is written Felix. And its due to change I...
The problem with the parser is due to Ocaml team breaking stuff. I wish I had written the compiler in Haskell now but I don't know Haskell. But once the...
I'm going to try to build Felix with Ocaml 5.x trunk. The problem is without opam, its very hard to switch to another Ocaml version and make sure it builds...
OK that's interesting. This is a *run time* error in the compiler. It's saying the standard Ocaml module Filename, function chop_suffix is given an invalid string eg a filename without...
LOL! The result of that operation is never used anyhow.