[Cocci] Need help compiling coccinelle on Ubuntu 16.04

[Julia Lawall]

TherI just tried compiling coccinelle on a Ubuntu 16.04 system, having
installed all the dependencies that seem to make sense, and it fails
to compile.
I need to use a version of spatch >= 1.0.6 for another project, and
the version supplied with Ubuntu is 1.0.4.
$ git clone https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle.git
$ cd coccinelle
$ ./autogen
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/wpd/local
$ make
and that fails with
...
cp /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmi ocaml/parmap.cmi
cp /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmx ocaml/parmap.cmx
cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmx': No such file or directory
Makefile:620: recipe for target 'ocaml/parmap.cmi' failed
make: [ocaml/parmap.cmi] Error 1 (ignored)
rm parsing_cocci/lexer_cli.ml parsing_cocci/parser_cocci_menhir.ml.d
tools/spgen/source/spgen_lexer.ml
parsing_cocci/parser_cocci_menhir.mli.d parsing_cocci/lexer_script.ml
parsing_cocci/lexer_cocci.ml parsing_c/lexer_c.ml

I had this problem and then somehow it disappeared... I think that
somehow it is supposed to be giving a warning, but not actually failing.
But it does really look like it fails. We will look into it.

julia

$ apt search libparmap-ocaml-dev
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libparmap-ocaml-dev/xenial,now 1.0~rc7-1 amd64 [installed]
small OCaml library allowing to exploit multicore architectures
$ ls -l /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap
total 312
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2379 Jan 18 2016 bytearray.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1615 Jan 18 2016 bytearray.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5218 Jan 18 2016 libparmap_stubs.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219 Jan 18 2016 META
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117954 Jan 18 2016 parmap.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27116 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cma
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5814 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1898 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmxa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106712 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmxs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10472 Jan 18 2016 parmap.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 906 Jan 18 2016 parmap_utils.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270 Jan 18 2016 parmap_utils.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363 Jan 18 2016 setcore.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207 Jan 18 2016 setcore.mli
There are parmap.cmxa and parmap.cmxs files, but no parmap.cmx file.
I am stuck here (and clearly ignorant of what I am doing). Any help
would be appreciated.
Thank you.
--wpd
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[Julia Lawall]

Post by Julia Lawall

I just tried compiling coccinelle on a Ubuntu 16.04 system, having
installed all the dependencies that seem to make sense, and it fails
to compile.

I had this problem and then somehow it disappeared... I think that
somehow it is supposed to be giving a warning, but not actually failing.
But it does really look like it fails. We will look into it.
Julia

Thank you Julia,
I think you are correct. When I looked more closely at the error
message, I saw that make ignored the failure code, and indeed, when I
attempted to run my application that relies upon spach > 1.0.6 (the
Linux backports tool), it appears to have worked.

That's great! Sorry that the output is so misleading...

julia

Sorry for the spam... I had reached the point where one too many
things were going wrong and decided to just stop and ask for some
help.
Thanks again.
--wpd

[Julia Lawall]

TherI just tried compiling coccinelle on a Ubuntu 16.04 system, having
installed all the dependencies that seem to make sense, and it fails
to compile.
I need to use a version of spatch >= 1.0.6 for another project, and
the version supplied with Ubuntu is 1.0.4.
$ git clone https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle.git
$ cd coccinelle
$ ./autogen
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/wpd/local
$ make
and that fails with
...
cp /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmi ocaml/parmap.cmi
cp /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmx ocaml/parmap.cmx
cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmx': No such file or
directory
Makefile:620: recipe for target 'ocaml/parmap.cmi' failed
make: [ocaml/parmap.cmi] Error 1 (ignored)
rm parsing_cocci/lexer_cli.ml parsing_cocci/parser_cocci_menhir.ml.d
tools/spgen/source/spgen_lexer.ml
parsing_cocci/parser_cocci_menhir.mli.d parsing_cocci/lexer_script.ml
parsing_cocci/lexer_cocci.ml parsing_c/lexer_c.ml
$ apt search libparmap-ocaml-dev
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libparmap-ocaml-dev/xenial,now 1.0~rc7-1 amd64 [installed]
small OCaml library allowing to exploit multicore architectures
$ ls -l /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap
total 312
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2379 Jan 18 2016 bytearray.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1615 Jan 18 2016 bytearray.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5218 Jan 18 2016 libparmap_stubs.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219 Jan 18 2016 META
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117954 Jan 18 2016 parmap.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27116 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cma
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5814 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1898 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmxa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106712 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmxs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10472 Jan 18 2016 parmap.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 906 Jan 18 2016 parmap_utils.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270 Jan 18 2016 parmap_utils.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363 Jan 18 2016 setcore.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207 Jan 18 2016 setcore.mli
There are parmap.cmxa and parmap.cmxs files, but no parmap.cmx file.
I am stuck here (and clearly ignorant of what I am doing). Any help
would be appreciated.
Thank you.

I found compiling it required too many stuff I did not really want on my
https://launchpad.net/~npalix/+archive/ubuntu/coccinelle

That's indeed at least better than 1.0.4.

julia

[Himanshu Jha]

TherI just tried compiling coccinelle on a Ubuntu 16.04 system, having
installed all the dependencies that seem to make sense, and it fails
to compile.
I need to use a version of spatch >= 1.0.6 for another project, and
the version supplied with Ubuntu is 1.0.4.
$ git clone https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle.git
$ cd coccinelle
$ ./autogen
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/wpd/local
$ make
and that fails with
...
cp /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmi ocaml/parmap.cmi
cp /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmx ocaml/parmap.cmx
cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/ocaml/parmap/parmap.cmx': No such file or directory
Makefile:620: recipe for target 'ocaml/parmap.cmi' failed
make: [ocaml/parmap.cmi] Error 1 (ignored)
rm parsing_cocci/lexer_cli.ml parsing_cocci/parser_cocci_menhir.ml.d
tools/spgen/source/spgen_lexer.ml
parsing_cocci/parser_cocci_menhir.mli.d parsing_cocci/lexer_script.ml
parsing_cocci/lexer_cocci.ml parsing_c/lexer_c.ml
$ apt search libparmap-ocaml-dev
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libparmap-ocaml-dev/xenial,now 1.0~rc7-1 amd64 [installed]
small OCaml library allowing to exploit multicore architectures
$ ls -l /usr/lib/ocaml/parmap
total 312
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2379 Jan 18 2016 bytearray.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1615 Jan 18 2016 bytearray.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5218 Jan 18 2016 libparmap_stubs.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219 Jan 18 2016 META
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117954 Jan 18 2016 parmap.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27116 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cma
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5814 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1898 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmxa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106712 Jan 18 2016 parmap.cmxs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10472 Jan 18 2016 parmap.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 906 Jan 18 2016 parmap_utils.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270 Jan 18 2016 parmap_utils.mli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363 Jan 18 2016 setcore.cmi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207 Jan 18 2016 setcore.mli

I had a similar issue previously due paramap dependency.
https://pastebin.com/teDP8R18

So, what I would suggest is first purge the Ubuntu supplied Coccinelle.
And then install all the packages as suggested in install.txt

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
***@himanshu-Vostro-3559:~/coccinelle$ sudo apt-get install
pkg-config ocaml-native-compilers ocaml-findlib menhir and
libmenhir-ocaml-dev libpcre-ocaml-dev
[sudo] password for himanshu:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
pkg-config is already the newest version (0.29.1-0ubuntu1).
and is already the newest version (1.2.2-4.1).
libmenhir-ocaml-dev is already the newest version (20151112.dfsg-1).
libpcre-ocaml-dev is already the newest version (7.0.4-2build1).
menhir is already the newest version (20151112.dfsg-1).
ocaml-findlib is already the newest version (1.5.5-2build1).
ocaml-native-compilers is already the newest version (4.02.3-5ubuntu2).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libparmap-ocaml libpycaml-ocaml
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

This above is the result what I had got on my system when I had the issue.
Most important is that you *must* remove these packages "libparmap-ocaml
libpycaml-ocaml" as they are not required and were installed when you
installed the old Coccinelle version from Ubuntu.

After removing these packages, do 'make distclean' and then
./autogen
...

as suggested in the instructions.

I also use Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS and now Coccinelle works fine!

Hope this helps.