Bug 21427

Summary: ocamldebug is actually ocamlrun
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Powertools Reporter: Yaron Minsky <yminsky>
Component: ocamlAssignee: Tim Powers <timp>
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Description Yaron Minsky 2000-11-28 15:20:46 UTC 
Oddly, the ocaml RPM is weirdly compiled, so that ocamldebug looks like a
version of ocamlrun (although it is not the same file as the ocamlrun
executbale included.)  To verify, just try to feed it on eof the
command-line options for ocamldebug, and you'll see it doesn't work.

I'm not sure what the problem is exactly.  I donwloaded pristine sources
and compiled them with only the memmove patch, and that ocamldebug worked
fine. The pristine sources do not compile fully without the memmove patch
I haven't tried the included sources, or the sparc patch.

A quick of correctness.  ocamldebug should give the following re

snapdragon: SOURCES $ ocamldebug
No program name specified
Usage: ocamldebug [options] <program> [arguments]
Options are:
  -I <dir>  Add <dir> to the list of include directories
  -s <filename>  Set the name of the communication socket
  -c <count>  Set max number of checkpoints kept
  -cd <dir>  Change working directory
  -emacs For running the debugger under emacs

If it doesn't (for instance, it says something about missing a bytecode
file) then there's a problem.
Comment 1 Yaron Minsky 2000-11-28 15:23:44 UTC 
I just checked --- the ocaml tar file contained on the RPM is in fact the
pristine sources.  So the problem is either the sparc patch or somehow in the
install.  I suspect it's the sparc patch.
Comment 2 Tim Powers 2000-11-28 17:54:30 UTC 
It's the same file, only stripped. Unstripped it has all the flags.

Tim
Comment 3 Tim Powers 2000-11-28 18:03:35 UTC 
After a quick look at some of the other binaries, none of them can be stripped.
If they are, the exact smae behavior is exibited. I am working on an errata
release for this now.

Tim
Comment 4 Tim Powers 2000-11-29 23:04:56 UTC 
An errata has been released for this ( RHBA-2000:119-02 ). Thanks for the report.

Tim