ocaml won't compile/install {Scanned}

[William Davis]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> No, it's 10.4 for a reason. That version of ocaml won't install on  
> 10.5 stock because 10.5 now conforms to UNIX03, which means there  
> are some non-backwards-compatible changes with 10.4. By setting the  
> deployment target to 10.4 we are saying "use the old 10.4 APIs, not  
> the new UNIX03-compliant APIs", which means it once again compiles.
>
> On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:03 PM, William Davis wrote:
>
>> I reported this a week ago --http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13236
>> also if this *was* valid should it not be = 10.5 for darwin_9 not  
>> 10.4 as shown in portfile
>>
>>
>> @ Henry
>> sudo port edit ocaml
>> will let you edit the port file (assuming you have env value EDITOR  
>> defined)
>> try adding # at the begining of those three lines
>>
>> # platform darwin_9
>> #   macosx_deployment_target 10.4
>> # }
>>
>> Then try again. Note: this change will go away the next time you do  
>> sudo port selfupdate, but that doesnt matter if the software  
>> installed it will stay installed.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Ballard
> http://kevin.sb.org
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>
>


Kevin, thanks for explaining that.


William Davis
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