ocamlrun requires a period in the filename, else it produces a misleading error message #5532
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Comment author: meyer Hi, It's not about period in the filename. Your file name seems to be a legitimate non-ocaml bytecode file found on path. It clashes on my machine with Linux /usr/bin/test. If you try ocamlrun ./test it will work. It's documented under: I'm closing this PR, since it's not a bug. |
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Comment author: meyer In fact, the improvement would to print out the full path to a file in the error message. I think this possibility is worth investigating. |
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Comment author: meyer Error message improved in r12215. |
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Comment author: edmcman Thanks, I think improving the error message is a good way to prevent such confusion! |
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Original bug ID: 5532
Reporter: edmcman
Assigned to: meyer
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2015-12-11T18:04:45Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Version: 3.12.0
Category: runtime system and C interface
Bug description
ocamlrun refuses to run bytecode files with no period in the filename. Instead, it prints "Fatal error: the file is not a bytecode executable file", which is not necessarily true.
Steps to reproduce
edmcman@joethecat:
/ocaml-3.12.0$ ocamlc test.ml -o test/ocaml-3.12.0$ ocamlrun testedmcman@joethecat:
Fatal error: the file test is not a bytecode executable file
edmcman@joethecat:
/ocaml-3.12.0$ mv test test./ocaml-3.12.0$ ocamlrun test.edmcman@joethecat:
edmcman@joethecat:~/ocaml-3.12.0$
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