[Libguestfs] [W/ commit: 838a3c9] "inconsistent assumptions over interface Guestfs"

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 06:03:54PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 06:47:59PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > Just did a git pull to the below commit (to get the latest version
> > 1.25.37) and did a local build, this is what I see:
> > 
> >     Error: The files ../ocaml/guestfs.cmi and perl_edit.cmi
> >            make inconsistent assumptions over interface Guestfs
> 
> The error means you need to do a 'make clean'.  

Ah, I mistakenly thought I did a 'make clean' before that. Looking in my
history buffer, I didn't.

> I believe it is caused
> by having an *.ml file move from one directory to another, which
> leaves an "orphaned" *.cmi file in the old directory.  This confuses
> the compiler because the cmi file is never recompiled, and so
> continues to refer to an old Guestfs interface (try
> 'ocamlobjinfo mllib/perl_edit.cmi' to see interface hashes).  

Learnt something new there.

> In any
> case, 'make clean' will delete *.cmi files and fix the problem.

Yes, it indeed did it.

Thanks, Rich.

-- 
/kashyap