ocaml-mode: Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"

[Caroline Becker]

Binary package hint: xemacs21

problem with dependencies with ocaml-mode

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 11:35:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xemacs21-mule 21.4.22-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: xemacs21
Title: package xemacs21-mule 21.4.22-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[era (era)]

Quoting VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz:
> Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/camldebug.el...
> While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ocaml-mode/camldebug.el:
> !! error (("Invalid syntax description flag: \"()1n\""))
> >>Error occurred processing camldebug.el:
> Invalid syntax description flag: "()1n"

Reassigning to ocaml-mode; masking as Confirmed based on duplicates (not yet marked).

[Mehdi (mehdid)]

The has been committed in the Git repository and will be fixed during the next update of OCaml.

[Robert Jakob (rj-robertjakob)]

Any progress here? It still does not work for me in 10.04.
Same error message.

[Robert Jakob (rj-robertjakob)]

Direct discussion with one of the Debian OCaml Maintainers yields the following solution:
- xemacs21 must not be installed!
- When emacs23 is installed and ocaml-mode is installed afterwards, no error occurs.

[era (era)]

So the fix which has been committed and is pending upload in Debian is a simple Conflicts: xemacs21 then? Any chance when they could upload it so that Ubuntu can try to sync?

[Mehdi (mehdid)]

I uploaded the package to Debian unstable (and will migrate to Squeeze). It's fixed now on Debian's side.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ocaml - 3.11.2-2

---------------
ocaml (3.11.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/ocaml-mode.emacs-install: do not byte-compile camldebug.el
    and inf-caml.el for xemacs21 (Closes: #508813, LP: #464587).
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:51:01 +0000