Original bug ID: 4116
Reporter: spiralvoice
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2006-09-20T17:45:21Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Version: 3.09.3
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

apfelkorn# make world
cd byterun; make all
cp byterun/ocamlrun boot/ocamlrun
cd yacc; make all
cp yacc/ocamlyacc boot/ocamlyacc
cd stdlib; make COMPILER=../boot/ocamlc all
cd stdlib; cp stdlib.cma std_exit.cmo *.cmi camlheader ../boot
if test -f boot/libcamlrun.a; then :; else ln -s ../byterun/libcamlrun.a boot/libcamlrun.a; fi

if test -d stdlib/caml; then :; else ln -s ../byterun stdlib/caml; fi
cd byterun; make all
if test -f stdlib/libcamlrun.a; then :; else ln -s ../byterun/libcamlrun.a stdlib/libcamlrun.a; fi
cd yacc; make all
cd lex; make all
cd tools; make all
cd stdlib; make all
for i in unix str num dynlink bigarray systhreads threads dbm; do (cd otherlibs/$i; make RUNTIME= all) || exit $?; done
cd camlp4; make all
set -e; for i in odyl camlp4 meta lib etc top ocpp man; do cd $i; make all; cd ..; done
cd debugger; make all
cd ocamldoc && make all
make manpages
apfelkorn# make opt
cd asmrun; make all
make: don't know how to make power-bsd.o. Stop

make: stopped in /usr/src/self/ocaml/ocaml-3.09.3/asmrun
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/src/self/ocaml/ocaml-3.09.3

Additional information

This issue is known to NetBSD ports maintainers:
http://cvsweb.de.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pkgsrc/lang/ocaml/Makefile.common?rev=1.15;content-type=text%2Fplain

.PHONY: cp-power-bsd
cp-power-bsd:
@${CP} ${WRKSRC:Q}/asmrun/power-elf.S ${WRKSRC:Q}/asmrun/power-bsd.S

A user on the MLDonkey IRC channel reported another fix:

[10:01] [19:43:32] error tracked donw
[10:01] [19:43:41] powerpc--linux) arch=power; model=ppc; system=elf;;
[10:01] [19:43:41] powerpc--netbsd) arch=power; model=ppc; system=bsd;;
[10:01] [19:43:47] thats from the configure script
[10:01] [19:45:12] either it really needs a power-bsd file or system needs to be set to either elf or rhapsody

So changing

[10:01] [19:43:41] powerpc--netbsd) arch=power; model=ppc; system=bsd;;

to system=elf would be another fix.