[virt-tools-list] [libvirt-users] Building virt-top to SLES 11 SP3

[cjlove at san.rr.com]

Thanks Rich!

I was able to get OPAM to install the newer ocaml-libvirt
version from a local copy and that resolved the compile issue 
building virt-top-1.0.8 from source.

Regards,

    Chris
---- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:25:33PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 08/24/2014 10:59 PM, cjlove at san.rr.com wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > 
> > [can you configure your mailer to wrap long lines?]
> > 
> > > 
> > > I was curious whether anyone has successfully built virt-top (version 1.0.8) on SUSE SLES11 SP3.
> > 
> > As mentioned on http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/, you might
> > get a better response by asking the virt-tools list (added in cc).
> > 
> > >  SUSE's ocaml support is rather limited, so I've built ocaml 4.00.1
> > from source and installed the necessary dependencies using Opam.
> > > 
> > > I'm still running into a compile error on virt_top.ml, line 697:
> > > Error: This expression has type int -> D.typed_param list array
> > >        but an expression was expected of type
> > >          (string * D.typed_param_value) list array
> 
> [Thanks Eric]
> 
> This is not pretty, but what happened is that Hu Tao from Fujitsu and
> Dave Scott from Citrix added a bunch of new features to
> ocaml-libvirt[1].
> 
> One of these new features changes the API for an existing function.
> However there is no released tarball containing this change -- the
> ocaml-libvirt 0.6.1.2 in Fedora is patched.
> 
> That causes the above error when you use new virt-top with
> ocaml-libvirt 0.6.1.2 tarball without this patch.
> 
> I have just released ocaml-libvirt 0.6.1.4 which contains this patch.
> Unfortunately I cannot upload it to the website[2] for some reason
> right now, so I have put it here[3] instead temporarily.
> 
> You will need to persuade the OPAM developers to move to this version.
> 
> Rich.
> 
> [1] http://libvirt.org/ocaml/
> [2] http://libvirt.org/sources/ocaml/
> [3] http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml-libvirt-0.6.1.4.tar.gz
> 
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