Ocaml

Ocaml is a popular variant of Caml language. it extends the core Caml language with a fully-fledged object-oriented layer, as well as a powerful module system, all connected by a sound, polymorphic type system featuring type inference

• Version: 4.02.1
• Added: November, 2014
• Link: http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/index.en.html

• Show all available versions of ocaml

  module avail ocaml

• Load ocaml module:

  module load ocaml/4.02.1

• get quick help:

  man ocaml

• Download ocaml, compile & install it to /export/apps/

  sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/ocaml/4.02.1/
  sudo chown -R joguya:joguya /export/apps/ocaml/4.02.1/
  ./configure -prefix /export/apps/ocaml/4.02.1
  make world &> world.log &
  make bootstrap &> bootstrap.log &
  make opt &> opt.log &
  make opt.opt &> opt.opt.log &
  make world.opt &> world.opt.log &
  make install
  make install
  make clean

• ocaml module file

  #%Module1.0
  #####################################################################
  ##
  ## Ocaml Modulefile
  ## By James Oguya, j.oguya@cgiar.org
  ## November, 2014
  ##
  
  set appname         ocaml
  set version         4.02.1
  set prefix          /export/apps/${appname}/${version}
  set exec_prefix     ${prefix}/bin
  set url "http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/index.en.html"
  set msg "Ocaml is a popular variant of Caml language. it extends the core Caml language with a fully-fledged object-oriented layer, as well as a powerful module system, all connected by a sound, polymorphic type system featuring type inference..\nOcaml Official Site: $url\n"
  
  module-whatis $msg
  
  proc ModulesHelp { } {
      puts stderr "$msg"
  }
  
  conflict        ocaml
  
  prepend-path    PATH        ${exec_prefix}
  prepend-path    MANPATH     ${prefix}/man

• deploy the new module using ansible

  ansible-playbook site.yml -u joguya -K -s --limit=compute --tags=module