Notes from testing OCaml 3.11.0+beta1 on Fedora

[Stéphane Glondu]

Richard Jones wrote:
> coq
> ------------------------------
> 
> Strange camlp4 problem, not yet resolved.  Maybe just a missing
> BuildRequires:
> 
> OCAMLC    lib/pp.mli
> OCAMLC4   lib/pp.ml4
> sh: camlp4o: command not found
> File "lib/pp.ml4", line 1, characters 0-1:
> Error: Preprocessor error

This is probably because configure doesn't detect it should use camlp5
instead of camlp4. It is already fixed upstream (and will be in
(hopefully) forthcoming 8.2). Meanwhile, it can be worked around by
explicitly passing -camlp5dir option to it.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane