[ProofPower] Setting up on macosx Sierra fails...

[Hugh Anderson]

Hi - I am trying to install ProofPower-Z using my new mac/Sierra machine,
using polyml, installed from brew: Poly/ML 5.7 Release RTS version: X86_64-5.6

I applied the MAC patch in the OpenProofPower-3.1w7 directory:

     Hughs-MacBook:OpenProofPower-3.1w7 hugh$ cat ../patch-3.1.rda.20170310.diff| patch -p1 -b -B orig/
        patching file configure
        Hunk #1 FAILED at 25.
        Hunk #3 FAILED at 71.
        2 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.rej
        patching file src/hol/hol.mkf
        patching file src/pptex/imp096.doc
        patching file src/xpp/imp096.doc
     Hughs-MacBook:OpenProofPower-3.1w7 hugh$

These two hunks did not seem important to me, so I carried on, but the 
configure failed. The offending part seemed to be attempting to build 
slrp-bin:

    Hughs-MacBook:OpenProofPower-3.1w7 hugh$ tail -7 build.log
       docsml -f hol.svf imp018
       docsml -f hol.svf dtd017
       echo "use\"polyml-build.sml\";" | poly > slrp-bin.log 2>&1
       polyc -o slrp-bin slrp-bin.o
       Error: slrp-bin.o: No such file
       Usage: polyc [OPTION]... [SOURCEFILE]
       make: *** [slrp-bin] Error 1
     Hughs-MacBook:OpenProofPower-3.1w7 hugh$

I had a look at the src/dev/slrp-bin.log file, and found two errors like 
this:

    imp001.sml:825: error: Type error in function application.
       Function: o : (int -> int) * (Time.time -> int) -> Time.time -> int
       Argument:
          (
             TimeInt.toInt,
             (
             case units of
                Microseconds => Time.toMicroseconds |
                Milliseconds => Time.toMilliseconds |
                ... => ...)
             ) : (int -> int) * (Time.time -> LargeInt.int)
       Reason:
          Can't unify int (*In Basis*) with LargeInt.int (*In Basis*)
             (Different type constructors)
    Found near
      TimeInt.toInt o
      (
      case units of
         Microseconds => Time.toMicroseconds |
         Milliseconds => Time.toMilliseconds |
         Seconds => Time.toSeconds)
    ...
    Exception- Fail "Static Errors" raised

So - is there some update or patch I can apply? This all worked fine for 
me on my old mac :) - maybe an  El Capitan / Sierra change? Or a change to
sml/time declarations?

Can anyone help? Cheers Hugh

Hugh Anderson                             E-mail: hugh at comp.nus.edu.sg
SoC, National University of Singapore     http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hugh