Re: Building for unix backend fails

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dimos,

You're using trunk (mirage.1.0.0) so things are briefly out of sync.  I'm 
merging and releasing everything right now to get trunk consistent again.  
Shouldn't take long.

-anil

On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:39, Dimosthenis Pediaditakis 
<dimosthenis.pediaditakis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I confirm the following issue using "mirage-unix":
> https://github.com/avsm/mirage-www/issues/19
> 
> I am using the 4.00.1 compiler, and here are the packages currently 
> installed: base-bigarray base, base-threads base, base-unix base, cmdliner 
> 0.9.2, cohttp 0.9.10, cstruct 0.7.1, fd-send-recv 1.0.1, lwt 2.4.3, mirage 
> 1.0.0, mirage-fs 0.6.0, mirage-net 1.0.0, mirage-net-direct 1.0.0, 
> mirage-unix 1.0.0, mirari 1.0.0, obuild 0.0.2, ocamlfind 1.3.3, ocplib-endian 
> 0.3, optcomp 1.4, ounit 1.1.2, re 1.2.1, shared-memory-ring 0.4.0, tuntap 
> 0.5, uri 1.3.8
> 
> Build the "static_website" from the "mirage-skeleton" examples fails:
> -------------------------------------------
> Building executable mir-hello
> [1 of 3] Compiling Hello                         [2 of 3] Compiling Backend
> File "backend.ml", line 19, characters 45-58:
> Error: Unbound constructor OS.Netif.PCAP
> [mirari] ERROR: The command "obuild build" exited with code 6.
> make: *** [build] Error 1
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> The dev_type PCAP and ETH are indeed defined in 
> "mirage.1.0.0/unix/lib/netif.ml" so it might be a linking issue of Mirari 
> (which I am using to build the projects).
> 
> When using "mirage-xen" it builds fine and runs like a charm as a Xen guest.
> 
> 
> Also, the "tcp" skeleton project, builds fine for "mirage-xen" but the Xen 
> guest fails to start. I tried to debug it under "mirage-unix" but as above, 
> building fails.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dimos
> 
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