[Modcaml] mod_caml/cocanwiki OCaml linking issues

[Jesse Guardiani]

OK,

I'm getting a bit closer to my goal now. mod_caml is installed, and
I submitted a Gentoo ebuild for it last night. Now I've
cocanwiki built and installed on my server. However,
I'm now getting OCaml linking errors when I try to
start apache:

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Stopping apache2...
Syntax error on line 69 of /usr/lib/apache2/conf/vhosts/vhosts.conf:
Failure("error while linking 
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/cocan/html/_bin/cocanwiki.cma.\nReference to 
undefined global 
`ExtString'")                                            [ ok ]
* Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files:
Syntax error on line 69 of /usr/lib/apache2/conf/vhosts/vhosts.conf:
Failure("error while linking 
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/cocan/html/_bin/cocanwiki.cma.\nReference to 
undefined global `ExtString'")

I think I understand what is happening here. The problem is that
I'm not sure how to fix it. Hopefully someone here can
help me out.

Here are the minor changes I made to get cocanwiki compiled:

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diff -ru cocanwiki-1.3.12/Makefile.config 
cocanwiki-1.3.12.orig/Makefile.config
--- cocanwiki-1.3.12/Makefile.config    2005-08-01 11:39:45.000000000 -0400
+++ cocanwiki-1.3.12.orig/Makefile.config       2005-04-02 
12:31:10.000000000 -0500
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
# following directories.  This really only applies for packagers
# building the Debian package.

-APACHECONFDIR := /etc/apache/conf
+APACHECONFDIR := /etc/apache

WIKIINSTALLDIR := /usr/share/cocanwiki
diff -ru cocanwiki-1.3.12/scripts/Makefile 
cocanwiki-1.3.12.orig/scripts/Makefile
--- cocanwiki-1.3.12/scripts/Makefile   2005-08-01 12:10:32.000000000 -0400
+++ cocanwiki-1.3.12.orig/scripts/Makefile      2005-04-02 
12:30:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@

include ../Makefile.config

-OCAMLC := ocamlfind ocamlc
+OCAMLC := ocamlc
OCAMLCFLAGS := -w s \
-       -I +apache -package pcre -I +dbi -package extlib -package 
netstring -package calendar \
+       -I +apache -I +pcre -I +dbi -I +extlib -I +netstring -I +calendar \
       -I lib
CPP := cpp
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I'm used to using ocamlfind, so I didn't understand why cocanwiki was 
trying to build
using directories relative to the ocaml base. It wouldn't compile that 
way, because
findlib defaults to putting new pacakges in a different directory from 
the ocaml base.
So I changed it, and it built.

But now I'm getting these module loading errors. Any ideas?


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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
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