Mary Michael wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Thanks for all your guidance in installing the > complete package of cygwin. > > I am trying to compile/install ocaml compiler in my > machine using cygwin. > > I was following the instructions to install the ocaml > compiler. There are totally 8 steps and I was able to > complete 5 steps. The 6th step is "make install" > > However I am getting an INSTALL error, > > " > ........ > ...... > cp -f ocamldoc /usr/local/bin > cp: `ocamldoc' and `/usr/local/bin/ocamldoc' are the > same file > make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/ocaml-3.06/ocamldoc' > make: *** [install] Error 2" > > Is it possible to tell me what is missing in here to > install the ocaml.
Seems to be an obscure bug in the .exe guessing code of cp. I work around it by doing "make install OCAMLDOC=ocamldoc.exe". I haven't made any attempt to debug, since the fileutils package is to be replaced with coreutils at some point in the future. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
