Re: unison-2.48 build fails with latest ocaml and flexdll (ping: Yaakov, Damien)

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 26/04/2016 21:47, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > I'm trying to build unison 2.48.3, which worked fine the last time I tried
> > it, in June 2015.  Today the build fails, with "flexdll error: cannot
> > relocate":
> >
> > > > > Compiling unison2.48-2.48.3-2.x86_64
> > ocamlc -o mkProjectInfo unix.cma str.cma mkProjectInfo.ml
> > File "mkProjectInfo.ml", line 1:
> > Error: Error on dynamically loaded library:
> > /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs/dllunix.so: flexdll error: cannot relocate
> > RELOC_REL32, target is too far: 0xfffffffc0f997112  0xf997112
> >
> > I ran /bin/rebaseall and tried again, with the same result.
>
> This is still unresolved. I can't build unison-2.48.3 on any of my Cygwin
> hosts. It worked a year ago; now it doesn't. Can you help?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew


There was an issue rebasing that file some time ago.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00410.html

I suggest at least to try a full rebase with
 /usr/bin/rebase-trigger full
and re-running setup.
I don't remember if rebaseall is rebasing from scratch or not.

Regards
Marco