00:36 <discocaml> <geoff> If it's a parameter of a recursive function it wouldn't need to a ref

02:13 <discocaml> <MasterBuilder> that's what I mean, it is a param now, closing over it would only make sense if it were immutable

02:50 <discocaml> <darrenldl> is it fair to say within the linux ecosystem, people don't distinguish between pid and tid that much?

02:58 <discocaml> <Et7f3 (@me on reply)> Does /proc/$tid/fd/0 is a correct path ? if so I would say yes

02:59 <discocaml> <Et7f3 (@me on reply)> I think they are place where the distinction should be made around namespace for instance

04:36 <discocaml> <darrenldl> i believe so yes

04:36 <discocaml> <darrenldl> procfs manpage does elaborate a bit more

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> ```

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> /proc/[tid] subdirectories

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> Each one of these subdirectories contains files and

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> subdirectories exposing information about the thread with

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> the corresponding thread ID. The contents of these

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> directories are the same as the corresponding

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> /proc/[pid]/task/[tid] directories.

04:37 <discocaml> <darrenldl> ```

04:40 <scoobybejesus> forgive me for trying to "just make it work" but i am trying to `opam install mad` on freebsd (13.1-RELEASE). Is there a way to modify this file https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/blob/master/packages/conf-mad/conf-mad.1/opam to be able to tell it to use `pkg-config --exists libmad`. It would return `0`, since it's installed via pkg. `pkg-config --exists mad` returns `1`, so the install of conf-mad (req'd dep) fails

04:42 <scoobybejesus> also hello, and thanks in advance for any tips. i'm no ocaml whiz. i'm just trying to build liquidsoap again on freebsd, and this new dependency of mad is tripping me up

05:10 <scoobybejesus> installing mad.0.4.5 will work for now (it seems), but it would be nice to use a current version (0.5.2), so i can build a newer version of liquidsoap. but i don't know how to make opam use a custom repo. seems to involve pinning, i guess...

06:06 <discocaml> <Et7f3 (@me on reply)> @scoobybejesus You can do something like that: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/blob/c0e9300f14d3570da85aad7e6e0ae47484a597a9/packages/sodium/sodium.0.5.0/opam#L12 so one line for os = "freebsd" and one for != and don't forget to add also in depext. (See other conf-file I'm pretty sure it contains a exemple with freebsd alternative name)

06:08 <discocaml> <Et7f3 (@me on reply)> Also for custom repository you can use `opam repository add` with the correct repo syntax

06:08 <scoobybejesus> thank you very much!!!

06:08 <discocaml> <Et7f3 (@me on reply)> I think the syntax of repo can be a github url or git clone url

06:09 <discocaml> <Et7f3 (@me on reply)> Good luck 🙂

13:32 <Anarchos> is there a haskell compiler written in ocaml ? I wonder if i could bootstrap ghc with it.

15:11 <discocaml> <froyo> don't think there's anything that's capable of bootstrapping ghc

15:11 <discocaml> <froyo> there were attempts with hugs, no?

15:11 <discocaml> <froyo> (failed attempts)

19:07 <discocaml> <Aeldrion> Hello, relative newbie here. Tried to set up OCaml for Visual Studio Code today; trying to run a file prompts me to use a debugger extension, the only one that seems not to be deprecated is earlybird which I have installed, and now I'm getting an "Unsupported file format" error when attempting to run .ml files. What is that I could be doing wrong?

19:08 <discocaml> <NULL> Don't run a file through VSCode, it is not supported in this way

19:08 <discocaml> <NULL> You either run selection using Maj+Enter, or you just run it manually through the command line

19:10 <discocaml> <Aeldrion> Oh, that does work, thank you