On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 08:56:01PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
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>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
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> > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:08:33PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > At OSS Europe, I got some questions about how to send out large
> > > > > Coccinelle-generated patches. Coccinelle provides a tool
> > > > > tools/splitpatch
> > > > > (go to the tools subdirectory of the Coccinelle distribution and run
> > > > > make)
> > > > > that splits patches by set of maintainers (the default), by directory
> > > > > (--dirmerge option), or by file (--nomerge option). There is a file
> > > > > tools/splitpatch.README that explains the various ways that it can be
> > > > > used, but the simplest is to create a patch normally using
> > > > > git format-patch -s, obtaining eg 0001-changes.patch, and then run
> > > > >
> > > > > splitpatch 0001-changes.patch
> > > > >
> > > > > The output will include a 0001-changes.cover file, a set of
> > > > > 0001-changesN.patch files with the various split patches, and a
> > > > > 0001-changes.cmd file for sending it off with git send-email.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is available in the latest github version of Coccinelle.
> > > > > Comments
> > > > > are welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you, Julia! I will give it a try.
> >
> > Does the following error message mean that I need a more up-to-date
> > version of ocaml or some such?
> >
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> > File "globals/config.ml", line 1:
> > Error: The implementation globals/config.ml
> > does not match the interface globals/config.cmi:
> > The field `python_interpreter' is required but not provided
> > The field `ocaml_version' is required but not provided
> > The field `configure_flags' is required but not provided
> > The field `get_temp_dir_name' is required but not provided
> > make: *** [globals/config.cmo] Error 2
>
> I'm not familiar with that. I assume you started with the github version
> of Coccinelle. Then ./autogen and ./configure. Then make. A recent
> version of OCaml would indeed be good. Maybe running make distclean
> before ./autogen would be good. The inconsistencies suggest that you have
> some old compiled code hanging around. The build infrastructure has
> changed a lot recently, so it might not be managing code that predates the
> changes in a way that you would expect.
Good point, that does work much better. Now -this- error message
seems to be me having an old ocaml:
ocamlfind ocamlopt -c -no-alias-deps stdcompat__weak.mli -o stdcompat__weak.cmi
ocamlopt: unknown option `-no-alias-deps'.
Will get a new one and see how it goes... ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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