using unison accross platforms

[Andreas Hauser]

george wrote @ Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:23:50 -0500:

> I looked at installing the pkg_add version on the debian host, but
> building that will be difficult (ocamlc prerequisite) so I'm thinking to
> back the dfly version to match the debian host.

just install ocamlc and go.
The ocaml tools usually work very good.
You might want to compile with ocamlopt so you get native code
instead of bytecode (ocamlopt machine code is faster than C in sometimes!).

> So, how do I install unison version 2.9.1 (vs 2.9.20 with pkg_add) on
> dfly?

Just checkout ports and modify the Makefile or try an old freebsd package.


Andy