Re: beta OPAM instructions

[Raphael Proust <raphlalou@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I went through the instructions on my OCaml sandbox virtual machine. It is a
VirtualBox vm (which caused problems).

First of, the general impressions:
- opam is nice,
- I am not sure why I have to be root to install it (as I have to change my
  environment to use it anyway, it would make sense to propose local install)
- having separate repos is way better

And now my run of the tutorial:

bnwr@ocamlsandbox ~/opam $ uname -a
Linux ocamlsandbox 3.3.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 8 05:10:33 UTC
2012 i686 GNU/Linux


It all went fine until a "no space left on device" failure (on the "opam
--verbose install cow mirage-fs" step).

After freeing some space, I had:


bnwr@ocamlsandbox ~/opam $ opam --verbose install cow mirage-fs
Package mirage-fs is already installed (current version is 0.3dev)
  'opam --verbose install cow mirage-fs' failed
bnwr@ocamlsandbox ~/opam $ opam --verbose install cow
(lots of output, everything works)


When building mirage-www though:


bnwr@ocamlsandbox ~/mirage/mirage-www $ make
(lots of output)
ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf_x86_64
Supported emulations: elf_i386 i386linux elf32_x86_64


That is due to my VirtualBox setupâ

The 'switch' section of the tutorial worked. (And I am *very* impressed!)

The building of the xen version failed because library was not found.

When installing them again I got the following error:


runtime/dietlibc/lib/abs.c:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not
compiled in


Which is again the result of my vm.

I'll try it directly on my computer later and report any failure.


Cheers,
-- 
_______
Raphael