ocaml 4.02.2 won't build on Snow Leopard

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 30, 2015, at 6:22 AM, Peter Hancock wrote:

> Before I write a ticket, I wonder if anyone else has had problems in gettin ocaml at 4.02.2 to build.
> This is on an early MacBook1,1, with OSX 10.6.8, Xcode 3.2.4.
> 
> The occasion of the error in the log file seems to be
> 
>  ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in _caml_system__code_begin
>  from i386.pic.o not allowed in slidable image.
>  Use '-read_only_relocs suppress' to enable text relocs:

That's a 32-bit Mac, right? Might be a 32-bit specific problem.


> Mind you, near the start there's a warning:
> 
>  :info:configure [WARNING] The environment variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set.
>  :info:configure  This will probably prevent compiling the OCaml system.
> 
> Where might this variable be being set?  Is it really causing the problem?

MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set by MacPorts base for all ports. Doing so is meant to provide consistency. I don't know why ocaml thinks this causes a problem.


> I might mention that this version of ocaml built fine on a late 2012 Mini running 10.10.3