Question

I am attempting to install and run objective-caml on a remote unix server.

I have successfully built and installed all files included in the ocaml package. However, when attempting to use it, eg:

[~]# ocamllex

gives:

-bash: /home1/PATHTOMYHOME/local/bin/ocamllex: /usr/local/bin/ocamlrun: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Is there any way to tell it to look somewhere else for ocamlrun? The correct directory is in the $PATH variable (ocamlrun works).

Answer 1

You can pass the name of the bytecode file to ocamlrun:

/correct/path/to/ocamlrun /home1/PATHTOMYHOME/local/bin/ocamllex

Alternately, it may just work to edit the first line of the bytecode file: there is a #! and a hardcoded path there. The rest of the file is bytecode though, but if your editor does not mess with it, there is a chance…

As a third solution, use the native-compiled version ocamllex.opt: it does not rely on ocamlrun.