Re: [Xen-API] Compiling xen-api on Debian Wheezy AMD64

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Try "opam install type_conv" and see if that helps when you retry xen-api-libs.

-anil

On 25 Apr 2013, at 22:32, Santosh Jodh <Santosh.Jodh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am hitting an error while building xen-api-libs now. It cannot find 
> type-conv:
> 
> ocamlfind ocamlc -I ../xml-light2 -I ../stdext -I ../uuid -package 
> camlp4,type-conv -ppopt -I -ppopt /usr/lib/ocaml/type-conv  -ppopt -I -ppopt 
> ../rpc-light -ppopt pa_rpc.cma -syntax camlp4o -I ../rpc-light -I ../jsonrpc 
> -I ../rpc-light  -I ../jsonrpc -I ../rpc-light -c -o fe.cmo fe.ml
> ocamlfind: Package `type-conv' not found
> make[1]: *** [fe.cmo] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/shared/home/sjodh/src/netscaler/xen-api-libs/stdext'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anil Madhavapeddy [mailto:anil@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:33 AM
> To: Santosh Jodh
> Cc: Dave Scott; John Else; xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-API] Compiling xen-api on Debian Wheezy AMD64
> 
> OPAM 1.0 has been released and will be in binary packages as soon as Debian 
> and other packaging vendors catch up in their release cycles:
> https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/149
> 
> Therefore it is safe to remove the xen-org/opam snapshot now.
> 
> To upgrade OPAM, you just need to compile OPAM-1.0 and replace the OPAM 
> binary, and run 'opam update' to refresh your package list.  It may be easier 
> to just delete ~/.opam and recompile packages.  There is no state for OPAM 
> held outside of ~/.opam.
> 
> -anil
> 
> On 25 Apr 2013, at 15:13, Santosh Jodh <Santosh.Jodh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Yes - they are from wiki 
>> http://wiki.xensource.com/wiki/XenAPI_client_libraries_for_ocaml.
>> 
>> Can we remove the obsolete repo git://github.com/xen-org/opam?
>> 
>> I will try the new instructions. Do I need to uninstall opam first? And how 
>> do I do that?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Santosh
>> 
>> 
>> From: Dave Scott
>> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:51 AM
>> To: John Else
>> Cc: Santosh Jodh; Jonathan Ludlam; xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Compiling xen-api on Debian Wheezy AMD64
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thanks, John -- your instructions look right to me.
>> 
>> Santosh: were the broken instructions on the wiki? If so, please update them 
>> once you get it working!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --
>> Dave Scott
>> XenServer System Architect
>> 
>> On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:32 PM, "John Else" <john.else@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Santosh,
>> 
>> Firstly I'd recommend cloning opam from the OCamlPro repository, rather than 
>> xen-org's fork (it's several months out of date), and secondly building a 
>> tagged release of opam rather than the master branch. Try:
>> 
>> git clone git://github.com/OCamlPro/opam cd opam git checkout latest 
>> ./configure && make && sudo make install
>> 
>> Then you can initialise opam with the default (OCamlPro) repository, and add 
>> xen-org's repository:
>> 
>> opam init
>> eval `opam config env`
>> opam remote add xen-org git://github.com/xen-org/opam-repo-dev
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> John
>> 
>> From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf OfSantosh Jodh
>> Sent: 22 April 2013 23:12
>> To: Jonathan Ludlam; Dave Scott; xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Xen-API] Compiling xen-api on Debian Wheezy AMD64
>> 
>> I am trying to compile xen-api - specifically rrdump.ml
>> 
>> ocamlc version:
>> The Objective Caml compiler, version 3.12.1 Standard library 
>> directory: /usr/lib/ocaml
>> 
>> 
>> git clone git://github.com/xen-org/opam cd opam; ./configure && make 
>> && sudo make install
>> 
>> This succeeded.
>> 
>> sjodh@REDBLD-XS:~/src/netscaler/xen-api-libs$ opam init 
>> git://github.com/xen-org/opam-repository
>> Fetching git://github.com/xen-org/opam-repository ...
>> { patches } are invalid field names in 
>> /home/sjodh/.opam/opam/bigbro.2.0.4-rev3.opam. Valid fields are { 
>> opam-version, maintainer, substs, build, remove, depends, depopts, 
>> conflicts, libraries, syntax, ocaml-version, build-env, license, authors, 
>> homepage, version, name }
>>  'opam init git://github.com/xen-org/opam-repository' failed
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Santosh
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