[Debian-med-packaging] [covid-19] Help for ocaml package needed

[Pierre Boutillier]

Hi Shayan,

In order to fix this error in a quick&dirty way, you can to add `oasis` 
as a build-dependency and do `oasis setup` (which regenerates the file 
setup.ml) before the `ocaml setup.ml -all` in rules.

Best,

Pierre B.

Le 02/06/2020 à 19:01, Shayan Doust a écrit :
> Hello Andreas et al.,
>
> I've integrated the patch and done a few tweaks overall for mcl[1].
>
> Building within sbuild on unstable, I get the following error:
>
> ...
> Making all in setops
> make[5]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/testing/setops'
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> make[5]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/testing/setops'
> make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/testing'
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> ocaml setup.ml -all
> File "./setup.ml", line 247, characters 8-26:
> 247 |         buf.[i] <- f s.[i]
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Alert deprecated: Stdlib.String.set
> Use Bytes.set instead.
> File "./setup.ml", line 247, characters 8-11:
> 247 |         buf.[i] <- f s.[i]
>                ^^^
> Error: This expression has type string but an expression was expected of
> type
>           bytes
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:74: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Build finished at 2020-06-02T16:50:16Z
>
> Finished
> --------
> ...
>
> I'll leave this CC'd in the list so that someone with more OCaml
> experience can suggest a possible solution to this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Shayan Doust
>
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mcl
>
> On 01/06/2020 20:04, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 05:22:56PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote:
>>> I've ran a diff and generated a patch between the plain 12-068 version
>>> (I cannot find its source on salsa so I just downloaded this tarball
>>> from the author's website but that shouldn't make any difference) and
>>> the mcl clone.
>>>
>>> ~7,000 lines in the patch all featuring new files and its contents
>>> regarding OCaml support but I will experiment tomorrow and see how
>>> cleanly and effectively I can apply this patch over the newer Debian
>>> packaged mcl.
>> Sounds promising - thanks a lot
>>
>>      Andreas.
>>