$ npm install rescript --save-dev
...
No prebuilt Ninja, building Ninja now
bootstrapping ninja...
...
bootstrap complete. rebuilding...
ninja binary is ready: <dir>/node_modules/rescript/linux/ninja.exe
No working prebuilt buckleScript compiler
...
Configuring OCaml version 4.06.1+BS
...
signals_asm.c:185:13: error: variably modified ‘sig_alt_stack’ at file scope
185 | static char sig_alt_stack[SIGSTKSZ];
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[3]: *** [Makefile:150: signals_asm.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jayesh/projects/hillridge/simulated-yield/node_modules/rescript/ocaml/asmrun'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1007: makeruntimeopt] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jayesh/projects/hillridge/simulated-yield/node_modules/rescript/ocaml'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:484: opt.opt] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jayesh/projects/hillridge/simulated-yield/node_modules/rescript/ocaml'
make: *** [Makefile:556: world.opt] Error 2
child_process.js:866
throw err;
^
Error: Command failed: make -j9 world.opt && make install
at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:790:11)
at Object.execSync (child_process.js:863:15)
at Object.build (/home/jayesh/projects/hillridge/simulated-yield/node_modules/rescript/scripts/buildocaml.js:70:6)
at provideCompiler (/home/jayesh/projects/hillridge/simulated-yield/node_modules/rescript/scripts/install.js:190:34)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jayesh/projects/hillridge/simulated-yield/node_modules/rescript/scripts/install.js:219:1)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:75:12) {
status: 2,
signal: null,
output: [ null, null, null ],
pid: 51891,
stdout: null,
stderr: null
}
I found an issue on ocaml repo (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/10250) which talks about this issue. The root cause was determined to be a change in glibc 2.34. The problem has been fixed there, but on more recent (and stock) versions of the ocaml compiler.
glibc on my system is indeed 2.34.
$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.34
...
I suspect more and more people will start encountering this error soon because rescript uses OCaml 4.06 (if my understanding is correct).
Full log here: Rescript installation error (probably due to glibc 2.34) - Pastebin.com